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Co-published with VICE. Buying a car and actually owning it in the eyes of the law are not the same thing. Some Americans are finding that out the hard way.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. In NYC eviction courts, many tenants are deprived of ...

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 Baffler. TO EXPRESS THE AMBIENT FEELING that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, ...

We first supported Fugett’s journalism early on in her career, and we are honored to have been part of this book’s ...

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 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 ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New Orleans Public Radio. In Vietnamese culture, water and home are so linked that they share a word. The Vietnamese word for water is nước. But ...

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 ...

Eric Kalis arrived at the hospital before sunrise on a chilly March morning in San Francisco. Before the 27-year-old psychiatric resident started his day seeing patients, he headed up to a third-floor ...

In 2007, when I was 14, I appeared on “Kids by the Dozen,” a reality show that aired on The Learning Channel and featured my family and other large families like mine. Our part of the series was shot ...