Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling.

Introduction The presidential election in 2016 brought intense discussions of the “working class” as class was perceived to be important to its outcome. This marked a turn in political discourse, ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Commonweal. Who tests the world’s drugs? Most often, the ...

Co-published with Bloomberg City Lab. In the Louisiana city of Shreveport, residents of Allendale have spent decades fighting a highway expansion. Even if they succeed, the neighborhood is … ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Focus. State facilities detain prisoners suspected 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 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 The Guardian. Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. These days, the ...

For at least a week, I tossed and turned. I did not want to violate Jane’s wishes, but I also understood her cancer diagnosis as a vital narrative thread in her life that could not simply be bracketed ...

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 ...