Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Margin, and The Nation. Stephanie Alexie awoke one morning to find her home surrounded by water too deep to wade through. “It looked like the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. TO EXPRESS THE AMBIENT FEELING that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Commonweal."I was an unhoused veteran. A chance friendship helped me heal from the trauma of homelessness." In a recent piece for EHRP/Barn ...

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 ...

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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue. *Indicates names have been changed for privacy and safety. When I reach 15-year-old Dylan*, he’s in Minnesota, in his aunt’s ...

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 ...

Michelle Belmont’s debt haunted her. It was almost unspeakable, but it was a raw relief when anyone asked her about it. She wanted people to hear about her life as she lived it, how her debt trailed ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in 2010, but ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. It was in the first warm week of summer that the toilet stopped flushing. For two weeks in 2023, Jaime and the other eleven men ...

When Covid hit in March 2020, Durham was quarantined but allegedly told he couldn’t bring his cane. Soon after, he says he told a nurse he was suffering horrible back pain, needed his cane, and wanted ...