Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Dissent Magazine. Media cooperatives have flourished in the last decade. But they can’t face the structural crisis of journalism alone.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Capital and Main. In Chicago, city data shows fewer than 4% of the more than 30,000 drivers removed from rideshare platforms were reinstated.

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Co-published with The Nation. Barbara Ehrenreich’s thesis has become even more resonant since the book’s 2001 release.

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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.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Tenants can be evicted for not paying utilities even if they have paid rent – tenants and their allies are fighting back.

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The Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University finds that the working class is talked about more, but described less.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Focus. State facilities detain prisoners suspected of ingesting contraband in “special watch” cells for days or weeks.

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

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Peace & Riot, and Nonprofit Quarterly. Prisons and the industrial sprawls around them are products of the same calculus: extract what's deemed useful, discard what isn't, and find the cheapest possible place to hide the remainder.

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