This article was co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. Meditations on AI, the loss of public media, and ...

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, ...

Cassandra Butler, 43, starts her day at five in the morning, the only time when it’s quiet at her house in Puyallup, Washington. As she sips her first cup of coffee, she prepares for a long day ahead.

Every Friday at around 6 p.m., farmers in Greensboro, Vermont, descend on Tom Hill’s barn to help out with the Friday evening milking session. As udders are emptied and beers popped open, they catch ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Inside the factory-like environment of a fast-food kitchen, sodas should be the easiest menu item to serve. At my restaurant, a pair of ...

This story is published in partnership with The Guardian and Bridge Detroit. Miraculously, Tomeka Langford is willing to talk to me. The 47-year-old Black woman is a long-standing Detroiter. A career ...

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 Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue. Early on a Thursday morning in Jacksonville, Florida, Ryan Moran and his wife are chatting over breakfast. The couple talk finances, ...