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Our storytelling about and by economically vulnerable Americans recieves a transformative multi-year Ford Foundation grant.
A photo essay about LA under siege by ICE, plus our Ford Foundation BUILD grant makes news ...
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists so they can create gripping stories which often counter the typical disparaging narratives about inequality. This high-quality ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. In NYC eviction courts, many tenants are deprived of lawyers despite the city’s right-to-counsel policies.
EHRP PRESS Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink, an EHRP-supported documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rick Goldsmith, continues to make waves in local press and screenings ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. A Native Hawaiian community in the Pacific Northwest grows taro (kalo) for health and well-being, to connect with their ancient ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Prism. Harsh policies targeting unhoused people in the so-called sanctuary city ensnare newly arrived migrants, who now have fewer places to ...
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project’s James Ledbetter Fund and The Guardian. When I got the chance to attend a conservative, evangelical high school in rural Iowa, I was ecstatic. My ...
If we don’t act, the consequences will extend far beyond the fire victims themselves. Some thirty thousand displaced people are about to enter a housing market that just lost ten thousand units, while ...
Jennifer’s spreadsheets began in 2015, after she and her husband had been married for a year and were ready to have a child. The first spreadsheet priced out day care options near their home in a ...
Co-published with Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A far-right attack on North Idaho College, a popular community college, reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed.
Co-published with The Guardian. Lena Derisavifard quit a career in finance to make baklava and other delicacies – aided by the bakery incubator HBK.