Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station along with home movies past and present, Karla Murthy meditates on family and the immigrant experience.

EHRP, Dirt, and Lux are launching The Way We Work, a $1,800 prize for the best narrative-driven cultural criticism about work with $1,000 for the runner up.Send in your completed, unpublished personal ...

EHRP contributor Anya Groner received the prestigious Murrow Award for her EHRP/WWNO piece, “Nuoc: A Viet-Cajun Story,” a ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists so they can create gripping stories which often counter the typical disparaging narratives about inequality. This high-quality ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. Santa Maria’s city center, with its gritty mix of old Western-wear stores and chain mall outlets, is the place where the valley’s ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Prism. Harsh policies targeting unhoused people in the so-called sanctuary city ensnare newly arrived migrants, who now have fewer places to ...

Co-published with The Intercept. Part 1 of “Insecurity” — stories of Americans falling through the cracks of the safety net during the pandemic.

Co-published with Literary Hub. “Even after 25 years in journalism, I never knew humanity the way I did working at a strip club and moving product.” ...

Co-published with The Intercept. The president has prioritized military spending over helping American families cover the rising costs of child care.