Saluting a Matriarch—25 Years After ‘Nickel and Dimed’
Co-published with The Nation. Barbara Ehrenreich’s thesis has become even more resonant since the book’s 2001 release.
A Rare Win in Indian Country: How Tribes Drove Out a Mining Company in One Week
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.
‘It Kept Adding Up’: How Add-On Utility Fees Can Lead to Eviction for Tenants
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Tenants can be evicted for not paying utilities even if they have paid rent – tenants and their allies are fighting back.
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.
‘Losing My Mind’: New York Prisons Are Holding People in ‘Shit Rooms’ With No Running Water
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Focus. State facilities detain prisoners suspected of ingesting contraband in “special watch” cells for days or weeks.
Back to the Lab Again
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Commonweal. Who tests the world’s drugs? Most often, the desperate and vulnerable
America’s Trash Can: Toxic Prisons and the Calculus of Disposability
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Peace & Riot, and Nonprofit Quarterly. Prisons and the industrial sprawls around them are products of the same calculus: extract what's deemed useful, discard what isn't, and
My Day in the Gig Economy
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. What assembling furniture on the “Handy” app reveals about economic class, digital platforms, and the future of work.
Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub
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
Immigrants under pressure: ICE arrests, working parents and exploitation on weed farms
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Ann Larson’s ‘Cleanup On Aisle Five’ is a Roosevelt Institute Book Pick!
The Roosevelt Institute also hosted a virtual discussion with Larson about the realities of low-wage frontline work.
The Weed Industry’s Trafficked Workforce
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and High Country News. How Chinese migrant workers in the Southwest fell through the cracks of justice systems — and fought back.
