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 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 Nonprofit Quarterly. An organizing conversation often features an “ask,” a question encouraging a fellow worker to commit to some form of ...

For the New York Times, EHRP’s executive director Alissa Quart writes about the opportunities that 20th-century America’s more affordable cities offered her mother, an amateur artist, and others 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 ...

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. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...

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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 Civil Eats. In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Ho‘ohōkūkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the ...

From the dangerously breakneck pace of fast food restaurants to self-storage units as symbols of loss in a housing crisis, read our collection of recent first-person stories examining working class ...