Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. For EHRP’s latest collaboration with More Perfect Union, Meagan Day dissects the horror of war-profiteering software company ...

This isn’t unusual. County social services offices regularly pay the hotels rates that are worth many times fair market rent for permanent housing in their areas, according to the analysis of OTDA ’s ...

USA 3.0 — a stunning new photography installation from the VII Agency — recently debuted at Brooklyn’s yearly photo festival Photoville, featuring images originally shot for EHRP. In addition, a new ...

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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and More Perfect Union. For our latest collaboration with More Perfect Union, EHRP’s Meagan Day skewers Walmart’s endless greed. After all, U.S.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...

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Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Idalia. Debby. Helene. Not visiting friends, not neighbors. All hurricanes that have not yet faded into memory for the residents ...

EHRP’S LATEST For our latest collaboration with EHRP and More Perfect Union, a video by Meagan Day dissects DOGE’s attempts to destroy our public institutions. Their dangerous goal: extreme ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Ho‘ohōkūkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the ...

Clancy’s encounter is an all-too-familiar scene for those on the front lines of America’s harm reduction movement. The overdose epidemic now kills more than 100,000 Americans annually, touching the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project’s James Ledbetter Fund and The Guardian. When I got the chance to attend a conservative, evangelical high school in rural Iowa, I was ecstatic. My ...