Recognition Without Representation: Working Class in U.S. Print Media 1980-2025
The Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University finds that the working class is talked about more, but described less.
College Grads Are Rejecting AI En Masse
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. The wave of booing aimed at AI-pilled commencement speakers signals a sea change in public opinion.
11 Books That Confront and Interrogate the Violence of a Class Society
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.
School closures have rocked this LA-area district – are they destroying it, or saving it?
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Guardian, and the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism. As the US faces challenges to public school funding, activists warn that more people should pay attention to what’s happened in
A Battle for Trans Rights in Manhattan’s Wealthiest School District
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Cut. Our New Narratives Fellow Anya Kamenetz reports on the activist groups and families organizing against policies targeting trans students in a Manhattan school district, creating a model for
How the Right Wing Is Trying to Privatize Public Education
How the far-right’s years of undermining and privatizing public education led us to the Trump Administration's attacks on Dept. of Education
Evangelical Education Nearly Ruined Me. Now the Christian Right Is Coming for Public Schools
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project's James Ledbetter Fund and The Guardian. From Bible stories to the Ten Commandments, public schools are starting to look a lot like the fundamentalist system this journalist escaped
Higher Ed’s Dubious Deal With Prison Health Care
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Universities have been providing treatment to inmates. Is that a good idea?
North Idaho College Was Taken Over By the Far-Right — It’s a Warning for the Future of Higher Ed
Co-published with Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A far-right attack on North Idaho College, a popular community college, reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed.
The FAFSA Rollout Mess Hurt Low-Income Students the Most
Co-published with Teen Vogue. This op-ed explains how the botched rollout of the new FAFSA form hurt the very students it was supposed to help.
Student Debt Is Taxing Young People’s Mental Health
Co-published with Teen Vogue. Beyond the mental burden of the loans themselves, debt sometimes means people can't afford the care they need.
A Look At Lives Transformed By the Student Debt Crisis
Co-published with Teen Vogue. Four young people share their stories.