Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Commonweal.“I was an unhoused veteran. A chance friendship helped ...

In a recent piece for EHRP/Barn Raiser, Michelle Polizzi reflects on the lasting psychological impact of her family’s housing insecurity during the 2008 recession and explores how current federal ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. As this year’s Labor Day approaches, I remember my late grandmother. She worked her whole life in her and my grandfather’s small shoe ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project/Puffin Foundation and The Intercept. As the Trump administration ramps up its anti-immigrant campaign, activists like Ron Gochez of Unión Del ...

Soaring tariffs. Mounting layoffs. A dismantled social safety net and a fraying democracy. Americans are squeezed like never before – and the need for a fearless, watchdog media covering this widening ...

This Labor Day is the third anniversary of the death of treasured journalist, activist, and EHRP founder Barbara Ehrenreich. For me, Labor Day has become a kind of Barbara Day (her friend Reverend ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue. EHRP New Narratives Fellow Anya Kamenetz reports on a ...

Each week, EHRP’s original reporting appears in major nationwide publications and film festivals — amplifying the voices of independent and financially struggling journalists. Katherine Reynolds Lewis ...