Co-published with Fast Company. Companies like PadSplit offer affordable rooms in shared houses, but they often come with major issues.

Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station along with home movies past and present, Karla Murthy meditates on family and the immigrant experience.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new ...

Co-published with Fast Company. Companies like PadSplit offer affordable rooms in shared houses, but they often come with major issues.

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 ...

EHRP contributor Anya Groner received the prestigious Murrow Award for her EHRP/WWNO piece, “Nuoc: A Viet-Cajun Story,” 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, ...

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 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 Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Slate. In a sleepy Washington state beach town roughly five miles from the U.S.–Canada border, you’ll find Birch Bay Storage. Last December, my ...

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 ...

This story is published in partnership with The Guardian and Bridge Detroit. Miraculously, Tomeka Langford is willing to talk to me. The 47-year-old Black woman is a long-standing Detroiter. A career ...