Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Magnum Foundation, and Mother Jones. Images from Portland’s months-long fight to keep ICE at bay.

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, ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Christian Century. The 5 p.m. mass on a recent sunday found Isela Castro selling beef nachos at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Jesuit parish in San ...

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 The Guardian. At the Crown Heights, Brooklyn bar Whoopsie Daisy, on a sunny fall afternoon, patrons drank natural wines while their children ran ...

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 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 ...

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.