Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the Hechinger Report and the Nation. In Milwaukee, a child’s blood test is often the first housing inspection.

The post How children became this city’s lead detectors first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. The wave of booing aimed at AI-pilled commencement speakers signals a sea change in public opinion.

The post College Grads Are Rejecting AI En Masse first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Documented. Undocumented dairy workers say they face fear and lost wages at New York farms.

The post New York Dairy Workers Push for Better Protections Under New Bill first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Stranger's Guide.The grim reality of service work — and one photographer’s act of resistance against it.

The post The Gig Economy first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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

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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.