Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, ProPublica, and New York Focus. Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented ...

EHRP Book Fellow Karie Fugett’s memoir, Alive Day, has been named by Amazon editors as one of the best books of 2025 so far! Written by the widow of a veteran who was grievously injured in battle and ...

Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station along with home movies past and present, Karla Murthy meditates on family and the immigrant experience.

EHRP contributor Anya Groner received the prestigious Murrow Award for her EHRP/WWNO piece, “Nuoc: A Viet-Cajun Story,” a half-hour exploration of Louisiana’s Vietnamese-American shrimpers on the ...

June 12: Our executive director Alissa Quart joins author Joan C. Williams at the 92nd Street Y for a conversation about how Democratic Brahmins lost working class voters and how they might get them ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) produces quality journalism about—and often by—Americans who are experiencing economic injustice. We support independent journalists so they can create ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. In NYC eviction courts, many tenants are deprived of lawyers despite the city’s right-to-counsel policies.

Welcome to EHRP’s pitch portal! The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that produces compelling journalism on economic inequality in America. We give grants ...

Not visiting friends, not neighbors. All hurricanes that have not yet faded into memory for the residents of Taylor county in Florida, where all three powerful storms hit in just two years. “It’s hard ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Margin, and The Nation. How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.

EHRP’S LATEST For our latest collaboration with EHRP and More Perfect Union, a video by Meagan Day dissects DOGE’s attempts to destroy our public institutions. Their dangerous goal: extreme ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. A Native Hawaiian community in the Pacific Northwest grows taro (kalo) for health and well-being, to connect with their ancient ...