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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME. The American public is talking about “McJobs” again. The conversation about McDonald’s workers has prompted a discussion about the ...

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 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 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 the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Cut. Kelly always loved kids. Growing up in a rural part of Texas in a conservative, Christian environment, she worked as the camp ...

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 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 ...

I was managing the front end of a grocery store one night during the height of the pandemic when a man with a bulge under his long black coat strolled through an empty checkout lane. One of the dozens ...