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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Nonprofit Quarterly. The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Nonprofit Quarterly. An organizing conversation often features an “ask,” a question encouraging a fellow worker to commit to some form of ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. These days, the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Barn Raiser. When I was 17, my dad filled a box truck with all of our family’s belongings—including most of the house’s furniture—and drove away ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) announces a transformative $1.65 million investment from the Ford Foundation through its select Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) program. The ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...