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The post Coming of age in East LA, unhoused activists in Oakland and a love letter to working-class immigrants first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, LA Review of Books, and The Key. Perfecting the art of the blacklist.

The post Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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The post Insecurity now: Vanishing mutual aid, halted family planning, soul-crushing AI jobs first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and NPR. Read part two of EHRP’s Tim Evans and NPR’s Sergio Martínez-Beltrán’s series on Minneapolis immigrant communities surviving the trauma of federal raids

The post Some Minneapolis Donors Have Moved On. The Immigrants Waiting for Help Haven’t first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and KQED. As hospitals across the state shutter, rural midwives provide specialized, and sometimes lifesaving, medical care.

The post In Northern California’s Maternity Desert, a Humboldt Midwife Offers Intimate Births first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and WIRED. For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

The post I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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The post Minneapolis survivor stories on NPR, and EHRP contributor wins Pulitzer first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the New York Times. Increasing economic and political uncertainty has led to families deferring their dreams of having children.

The post Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Congratulations to EHRP Grantee Brian Goldstone!

The post Brian Goldstone Wins the Pulitzer Prize! first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and NPR. Minneapolis immigrants struggle to rebuild their lives after the trauma of federal government violence, as captured by EHRP photographer Tim Evans and NPR’s Sergio Martínez-Beltrán.

The post Minneapolis Grapples with the Impact of Trump’s Largest Immigration Crackdown Yet first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.