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.

Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register is available for pre-order now.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Dirt Media, and Lux Magazine. We were selling baby food and the American dream — I wrote the script.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. EHRP Executive Director Alissa Quart connects Labor Day sales with rampant consumerism, workplace exploitation, and American Dream mythology.

EHRP/Puffin Fellow Caitlyn Clark’s latest TikTok breaks down why social welfare platforms are so popular with working class voters.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. Meagan Day shows how the Trump Administration purposefully damaged the reputation of vital government programs for working people. 

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. Palantir stock is surging. It’s not despite the danger it poses to humanity — it’s because of it.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, ProPublica, and New York Focus. Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child care and help

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. For our latest collaboration with MPU, Meagan Day skewers Walmart’s endless greed.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. DOGE is causing dysfunction in the federal government — and that’s a feature, not a bug. Damaging public institutions’ reputation is all part of the strategy.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. Our Executive Director writes on how, historically, poetry can help us find solace and direction in the face of political extremism.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. How the shrinking of welfare during Clinton's administration led directly to American fast food’s exploitation of labor.