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

The post Saluting a Matriarch—25 Years After ‘Nickel and Dimed’ first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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.

The post A Rare Win in Indian Country: How Tribes Drove Out a Mining Company in One Week first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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.

The post ‘It Kept Adding Up’: How Add-On Utility Fees Can Lead to Eviction for Tenants first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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

The post Recognition Without Representation: Working Class in U.S. Print Media 1980-2025 first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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.

The post ‘Losing My Mind’: New York Prisons Are Holding People in ‘Shit Rooms’ With No Running Water first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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

The post Back to the Lab Again first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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.

The post America’s Trash Can: Toxic Prisons and the Calculus of Disposability first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. What assembling furniture on the “Handy” app reveals about economic class, digital platforms, and the future of work.

The post My Day in the Gig Economy first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian with the America’s 250th Project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home region

The post Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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