For 24 years, Constance Franklin worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. As a CDC analyst, she traveled to Botswana during President George W. Bush’s administration ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. On a late afternoon in early November, Xochitl Bervera launches The Roxie Girl from St. George Island into the gentle waters of ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. In St Paul, Minnesota, Brittany Kubricky pulled into a school parking lot. Normally, she was there just to pick up her ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. This is Part Two of a two-part series; read Part One here. Last spring, José Edilberto Molina-Aguilar was resting in his ...

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 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, ...

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, 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 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 the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. ‘Tis the season of college commencement—and this year, it’s also the time for booing commencement speakers, who have made AI ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. This is Part One of a two-part series; read Part Two here. Hilario’s work shift on a Vermont dairy farm began at 10.30pm when ...

EVERYONE RECALLS THE SHORTAGES of toilet paper and pasta, but the early period of the pandemic was also a time of gluts. With restaurants and school cafeterias shuttered, farmers in Florida destroyed ...