Dec 5, 2024 · Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Hyperallergic. Part of a series on New York City housing, this final installment — a comic — focuses on its creator who was displaced from his Brooklyn brownstone.

Our Mission. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists as they forward fresh narratives about inequality. EHRP’s high-quality journalism is then co-published with mainstream media outlets, to help readers understand and address systemic hardship.

1 day ago · Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new homes in an incredibly tight housing market. There’s an easy solution: give the empty houses to the displaced.

1 day ago · Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new homes in an incredibly tight housing market.

Nov 17, 2024 · Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.

Nov 19, 2022 · National Headliner Award Winner, Best Civic/Political Affairs Podcast | In this final part of our series, we’re talking about the right to meaningful work and what happens to people who look for work while also having a disability that’s invisible to most.

Mar 8, 2024 · Last year, we asked photographers to document this knotty moment for American labor. Their projects show both new organizing and the reinvigoration of old institutions. In March 2023, reform-minded Shawn Fain was elected president of the UAW by a margin of less than 1 percent. He proceeded to don an “EAT THE RICH” T-shirt and lead the boldest strike in the union’s history, shutting down ...

Apr 1, 2024 · Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Magnum Foundation and Mother Jones. We asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline.Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor?

Oct 16, 2021 · The pandemic has been a crash course in hardship and downward mobility for millions of Americans. Whether they thought they had their lives “set” or were already struggling to get by, the arrival of the coronavirus suddenly added a lot of new households to the ranks of those scrambling to make the rent, pay the electric bill, or make three weeks’ worth of money stretch to the end of the ...

EHRP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that produces compelling journalism on economic inequality in America. We give grants to independent journalists reporting on issues related to poverty, economic class, workers’ rights, and income disparity in the U.S., and co-publish their work in partnership with major media outlets.