Co-published with Jacobin. When schools offer universal free meals, hungry kids eat. They also have better academic performance, behavior, attendance, and psychosocial functioning.

Co-published with Rolling Stone. An exclusive excerpt from the new book Bootstrapped explodes the fantasy at the heart of the American dream.

Co-published with The Washington Post. Politicians are beginning to more regularly challenge the "bootstraps" model.

Co-published with TIME. Relentless individualism has been part of America's ethos. Not anymore, writes Alissa Quart.

Co-published with The New York Times. Americans are taught that they have to go it alone. That’s a dangerous myth.

Co-published with Grist. Landslides are one of Kentucky's costliest natural disasters. Climate change is increasing their danger.

Co-published with The Boston Globe. Looking at equity and equality through class could level the playing field for low-income students of all backgrounds.

Co-published with The Nation. A community of migrants and unhoused people call the shuttered downtown of this California city home.

Co-published with Erie News Now. Nearly 41 million Americans will see the pandemic boost to their SNAP benefits expire on March 1st, including folk here in Pennsylvania.

Co-published with Bloomberg City Lab. In the Louisiana city of Shreveport, residents of Allendale have spent decades fighting a highway expansion. Even if they succeed, the neighborhood is …

Co-published with The New Republic. The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

Co-published with The Intercept. In Part 2 of “Insecurity,” we meet Eshawney Gaston, a fast-food worker who joins the wave of labor uprisings sweeping the country during …