Gary Rivlin
Gary Rivlin is the author of five books, including Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big Business. He has worked as a staff reporter for The New York Times, the Chicago Reader; and the East Bay Express.
The Corner Store After Katrina
Co-published with The Nib. Illustration by Jackie Roche. A comic about a Lower Ninth resident who invests everything he’s got back into his community.
Stray Bullets
Co-published with The Atavist, excerpted on Mother Jones. Tony Davis was 18 when he took another boy's life in a drive-by shooting. Now he's a middle-aged man worthy of redemption.
America’s Poverty Tax
Co-published with The Daily Beast. While America’s jobs and economy remain flat, it’s getting more expensive to be poor, with everyone from payday lenders to subprime credit cards charging extortionate rates.