Soaring tariffs. Mounting layoffs. A dismantled social safety net and a fraying democracy. Americans are squeezed like never before – and the need for a fearless, watchdog media covering this widening ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project/Puffin Foundation and The Intercept. As the Trump administration ramps up its anti-immigrant campaign, activists like Ron Gochez of Unión Del ...

This Labor Day is the third anniversary of the death of treasured journalist, activist, and EHRP founder Barbara Ehrenreich.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. EHRP Executive Director Alissa Quart connects Labor Day sales with rampant consumerism, workplace exploitation, and American Dream ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue. EHRP New Narratives Fellow Anya Kamenetz reports on a ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Nonprofit Quarterly. The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming.

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 ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue. EHRP New Narratives Fellow Anya Kamenetz reports on a trans teen and his parents who fled Texas for Minnesota to escape laws ...

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 ...

Our executive director Alissa Quart joined author Joan C. Williams at the 92nd Street Y for a conversation about “How the Left Lost the Working Class,” where they also discussed how we might win them ...