Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Hammer and Hope. Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Everything Is Political, and Slow Factory. How America’s last frontier reflects the broader unraveling of the United States.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. The rules say check IDs, refuse the drunk, protect the vulnerable. The incentives say do the opposite. Somebody has to live in that gap.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and LA Public Press. They thought their gardens and lawns were lead-free after the state led cleanups at their homes. But the largest environmental clean up of residential properties in California history hasn’t gone according to plan.

The post State Agrees to Retest for Lead at Homes Near Exide Where Cleanups Failed first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Mother Jones. The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they’re suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.

The post Class Struggle, But Weird: The Surreal Politics of This Year’s Oscar Nominees first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Adno chronicles the battle between a billionaire-backed nonprofit and its chief scientist that led to the scientist’s bankruptcy and incarceration.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. I once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, I am living it.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Cut. How an anonymous online community is helping women redefine parenting.

The post Choosing to Become a Single Mom by Choice first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Woods won for two EHRP-supported stories covering migrant deaths in Texas and the families left behind.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Rolling Stone, with a one-week exclusive in Apple News. A yearslong battle between a celebrated hydrologist and a respected environmental juggernaut led to accusations about political motivations and stealing trade secrets.

The post A Billionaire, a Scientist, and a Secret in the Florida Everglades first appeared on Economic Hardship Reporting Project.