Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. The myth of the “irrational poor” is often used to justify cutting and restricting public programs. But people on SNAP and ...

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 The Nation. It was an early summer morning, and Katy had been up for most of the night. During those hours, she had experienced what she would ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Slate. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a ...

HOOPA VALLEY RESERVATION, CALIFORNIA—The Hoopa Fire Department is a fortress of pinewood and eggshell-colored sheet metal against a backdrop of evergreen-blanketed hills. As the nerve center of the ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project’s James Ledbetter Fund and Oxford American. On the first Saturday of each December, a small miracle occurs in the extreme northeastern Oklahoma ...

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 ...

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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 and The Guardian. Monday mornings at the Mendocino Coast Humane Society, the northern California animal shelter where I work part-time, are chaotic.

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, The Margin, and The Nation. Stephanie Alexie awoke one morning to find her home surrounded by water too deep to wade through. “It looked like the ...