Matthew Shaer - Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Author: Matthew Shaer

Matthew Shaer

Matthew Shaer is an Emerson Fellow at New America and a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine. He is working on a book for Metropolitan about the criminalization of poverty.

Trapped: How Juvenile Courts Saddle Families with Impossible Debt

Criminal Justice, The Pandemic

Trapped: How Juvenile Courts Saddle Families with Impossible Debt

Co-published with Slate. Most states let courts fine teenagers. The debt is taking down their whole families.