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 with Nonprofit Quarterly. The notion of class has long been awash in confusion.

Co-published with The Guardian. I was the first in my family to go to college and I teach at an Ivy League school. I’m still broke – and I probably always will be.

Co-published with The Guardian. Wealth and class are difficult topics to discuss – but as children grapple with inequality, it’s our job to address it.

Co-published with Fusion. Two years ago, this town razed a fence that segregated a housing project from a suburb. Did it change anything?

This story originally appeared in The New York Times with support from EHRP. Minimalism is a virtue only when it’s a choice

Co-published with CNN. Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" venture is being rightly attacked for all the wrong reasons. What's been missed is a real opportunity that Sandberg's proposal unintentionally spotlights: the opportunity to talk honestly about feminism