Co-published with The Nation. Barbara Ehrenreich’s thesis has become even more resonant since the book’s 2001 release.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling.

The Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University finds that the working class is talked about more, but described less.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian with the America’s 250th Project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and WIRED. For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. From ICE to Kalshi, our fear and uncertainty are increasingly monetized, weaponized, and turned against us.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they’re suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. I once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, I am living it.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Magnum Photos, and Capital and Main. Powerful photos capture the lives and work of California immigrants whose contributions often go unseen or underappreciated. A selection of images from an exhibition at

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. A comic about the Eagles, fathers, incarceration, and the holes that sports can’t fill.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, LitHub, and Bookshop.org. We created this list of some of the best titles, new, older and forthcoming on some of the biggest themes of our time, affordability and social mobility.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.