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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Truthout. Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Prism. “If it doesn’t work out, I’m going back,” said the Venezuelan woman through an interpreter. Since escaping her country along with 7.7 ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project’s James Ledbetter Fund and The Guardian. When I got the chance to attend a conservative, evangelical high school in rural Iowa, I was ecstatic. My ...
Ann Larson is a writer and activist focused on economic justice. Her writing on education, debt, and low-wage work has appeared in the New Republic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Los ...
Jennifer’s spreadsheets began in 2015, after she and her husband had been married for a year and were ready to have a child. The first spreadsheet priced out day care options near their home in a ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. This election may well come down to one critical question: whether voters feel like they are better off now than they were four ...
Alissa Quart is the author of five books of nonfiction including the acclaimed Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, now out in paperback, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. The American public is talking about “McJobs” again. First, Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies, including former president Bill ...