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WNYC Studios
Co-published with WNYC Studios. Staten Island’s North shore is missing a big opportunity: two million tourists ride the Staten Island Ferry every year, for a free sightseeing tour of New York Harbor. But on arrival, most of the visitors hurry onto the next ferry back to Manhattan, without spending a dime.
WNYC
Co-published with WNYC Studios. For many Staten Islanders getting to work means catching a bus to the ferry, and for residents who lives close to the ferry and should have the shortest commute, they often report that the bus is failing them.
WNYC Studios
Co-published with WNYC Studios. Shop owners claim a rise in crime after Garner’s death is hurting their businesses and the community.
WNYC Studios
Co-published with WNYC Studios. Residents on Staten Island's North Shore voted on how to spend one million dollars in their community. Winning projects will be announced Wednesday.
WNYC Studios
Co-published with WNYC Studios. Extensive private developments and an upcoming city rezoning for the North Shore of Staten Island have residents worried about the future look and feel of their neighborhoods.
WNYC Studios
Co-published with WNYC Studios. It’s a struggle to afford living in New York City, and the cost keeps rising. WNYC looks at what it takes to continue making this place home, one neighborhood at a time.
Joseph Rodriguez
Co-published with The New York Times. Whatever happened to the "gangbanger"?
Jessica McKenzie
Co-published with CityLab. An open data project sought to battle tax foreclosures by arming residents with information. It may have empowered property speculators more than anyone.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with CityLab. Usually, the public benefits of gambling deteriorate over time. But many American cities still pin their economic hopes on casinos.
Tamara Reynolds
This story originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of Oxford American with support from EHRP. What an unsolved double murder in Kentucky reveals about America’s military-industrial complex.
Alice Proujansky
Co-published with Cosmopolitan. As Kayla Jones, 28, kisses her 2-year-old daughter, Lola, good-bye this morning, she doesn’t know if she’ll spend the day working with women who are joyfully welcoming or somberly ending their pregnancies.
Antonia Farzan and Johanne Rahaman
Co-published with the Broward Palm Beach New Times. From Trinidad to Miami, photographer Johanne Rahaman showcases the beauty of Black rural life through dynamic portraiture and oral history.
Melissa Bunni Elian
This story originally appeared in The New York Times with support from EHRP. Melissa Bunni Elian captured the lives of two families in Yonkers, one in an affluent area and the other in the city’s gritty southwest section.
Donnell Alexander
Co-published with Fusion. This is revolutionary: Trying to take control of a city council in a small town and then give the power to people.
Zackary Canepari
Co-published with CNN's Great Big Story. Nineteen-year-old Briana Shields has lived much of her life in her sister Claressa’s shadow. Given the fact that her sister is boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, an Olympic gold medalist, that makes sense.
Brian Palmer
Co-published with BuzzFeed. A group of volunteers has been working to reclaim two neglected Virginia cemeteries from nature’s grasp.
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 9. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. The team behind There Goes the Neighborhood talks about what they've learned, and the way forward in a post-gentrified Brooklyn.
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 8. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. Gentrification has many New Yorkers asking the same question: Is there still a place for me in this city?
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 7. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. Some Brooklynites are wrestling with their own role in gentrification. Changes may be welcomed, but they come with mixed emotions for many.
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There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 6. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. In the fast moving world of Brooklyn real estate, for some it feels more like the Wild West – developers and investors looking to cash in on the gold rush don't always play by the rules.
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 5. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. How does a tidal wave of money and fast-shifting demographics affect the people who share a neighborhood?
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 4. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. Mayor de Blasio's plan to rezone East New York is his way of controlling the gentrification machine -- so what does the zoning plan actually look like?
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 3. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. What did East New York look like before Mayor de Blasio declared it the neighborhood where the city's future begins?
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 2. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. Since the late 1960s, outsiders have known East New York for its low median income and high crime rates. But 120,000 people call it home.
WNYC Studios
There Goes the Neighborhood - Episode 1. Co-published with WNYC Studios and The Nation. Gentrification is something everyone is talking about, but what is it? When a neighborhood changes, how does it happen and why? And who decides? This new podcast takes an in-depth look at the gentrification of Brooklyn, and the role race plays in the process.
Evelyn Nieves
Co-published with Salon. For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder.
Donnell Alexander
Co-published with Rolling Stone. I visited the area in Oregon where armed white militants took over a wildlife refuge, and I felt like a sitting black duck.
Michelle Frankfurter
Co-published with Fast Company Co.EXIST. Portsmouth, Ohio, is a small Rust Belt city ravaged by job loss and economic stagnation. Over time, prescription painkillers replaced the American Dream. When even the pills became too expensive, heroin replaced everything.
Joseph Rodriguez
Co-published with The New York Times. Puerto Rico's growing debt is causing the population to migrate en masse in search of better opportunities. But what about those who can't leave?
Criminal Justice
Zora J Murff
Co-published with The Guardian. The Philadelphia-area women interviewed by Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz were asked to choose one object they hold on to to remind themselves of their loved ones currently serving time.
Zora J Murff
Co-published with The Guardian. They all use the van service provided by Bridging the Gap, based in Philadelphia, for personal reasons but are united by one thing: commitment to and love for the men in their lives.
Lisa Riordan Seville & Zara Katz
Co-published with The Guardian. When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in prison, Kristal saw an opportunity to connect Philadelphia families to loved ones locked up hours away – and Bridging the Gap was born
Endia Beal
Co-published with VICE and The Marshall Project. An inmate with cancer wonders if her parole will come soon enough.
David Dayen
Co-published with VICE. Buying a car and actually owning it in the eyes of the law are not the same thing. Some Americans are finding that out the hard way.
Ebony Slaughter-Johnson
Co-published with Alternet. White supremacy systematically creates poverty with one hand while violently punishing it with the other.
Piper McDaniel and Talia Herman
Co-published with Huffington Post with additional support from Capital & Main. Photography by Talia Herman. As the timber industry collapsed, one Northern California town turned to marijuana.
Sarah Smarsh
Co-published with Longreads. Nearly nine out of ten cops are men. Sarah Smarsh discusses the police force’s gender problem and a Wichita woman’s efforts inside the criminal justice system that failed her.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with The Guardian. Municipal coffers are being filled by fining those who can least afford it. If fees were tied to wealth, that calculus would shift.
Andrew Lichtenstein
Co-published with the New Republic. Cataloguing the makeshift memorials for the victims of New York City's gun violence.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with The New Yorker. A project in Oakland hopes to do something remarkable: build a co-op agricultural network owned and run by the formerly incarcerated.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with Fusion. Anna Stubblefield was convicted of raping her disabled student. I have a problem with that.
Gary Rivlin
Co-published with The Atavist, excerpted on Mother Jones. Tony Davis was 18 when he took another boy's life in a drive-by shooting. Now he's a middle-aged man worthy of redemption.
Annette Fuentes
Co-published with The Atlantic. Courts are hitting students with harsh penalties and collecting millions of dollars in fines. But are they addressing the real problems?
Culture
Ann Neumann
CULTURE
Co-published with The Baffler. Awkward, Americanized, consumer-focused forms of Buddhism have long since taken over our exercise (yoga), our offices (mindfulness), and our homes (feng shui). Now, with doula programs popping up like mantras in the mind, they’ve come for our deaths.
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Christopher Soto
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
Don Mee Choi
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Let’s take a closer look at the most feared weapon used by the US in the Korean War.
Anne Boyer
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. A poem about survival from Kansas City-based poet and essayist Anne Boyer.
Tyehimba Jess
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!
Alissa Quart
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. One of the strengths of poetry is that it’s a different kind of language…it can cut directly to meaning making and, yes to emotional truths.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with The Baffler. How Silicon Valley commodified and sold you "mindfulness".
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Reuters. Today, the process of a movement or a person going from outsider to insider, which once took years or even decades, happens in a matter of months.
June Thunderstorm
Co-published with The Baffler. Anti-smoking legislation is, and always has been, about social control.
Alison Stine
Co-published with Lenny Letter. How becoming a single mom in a depressed town helped one woman let go of perfection.
Education
Bliss Broyard
Co-published with TIME. Public schools in wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods are pitching in so that low-income students can have the same level of resources as they do.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with TIME. The U.S. should focus on training programs for students, not profits.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Atlantic with additional support from Capital & Main. When it comes to schoolwork, there is a chasm separating students with parents who have predictable work schedules from those whose parents don’t.
Alice Proujansky
Co-published with Medium. Teaching in challenging environments isn't easy, and good intentions aren't enough.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with Vogue. Student debt in the US has become a national crisis. But there's only one way to eliminate it for good.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Atlantic. Urban school systems are now so confusing—and so unequal—that parents are hiring private experts to help them figure out where to send their kids.
Rian Dundon
Co-published with The New York Times. What the controversial educational initiative looks like for low-income students and parents in the shadow of Silicon Valley.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Pacific Standard. With 75 percent of the academic workforce precariously employed,
adjuncts on the edge are raising money—for themselves.
Katherine Stewart
Co-published with The Nation. How evangelical Christians are taking advantage of publicly funded spaces.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Elle. Like hundreds of thousands of others with advanced educations, Brianne Bolin barely makes enough to feed herself and her son.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with The Atlantic. Leila Yusuf is an immigrant who fled to the United States 19 years ago, during the civil war in Somalia. She’s 37 years old, has three children, and works as a shuttle bus driver in Washington, 20 miles south of Seattle. She longs for a “better job, better life” where she can make more than the minimum wage.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with The Atlantic. The new version of the exam has tougher questions and a higher registration fee--plus it requires computer proficiency.
David Swanson
Co-published with Alternet. A living-wage campaign has been pressing the University of Virginia’s overpaid administrators to treat its workers better for the past 14 years.
Families
Micaela Walker
Co-published with TIME. Opponents of the current Medicaid program may look at the dollars only and not the human beings behind them.
Kholood Eid and Alice Martins
Co-published with Refinery29. How one family stays together when President Trump's Muslim Ban is keeping them apart.
Sarah Elizabeth Richards
Co-published with Cosmopolitan. When Erica's twin sisters were adopted, she thought she'd still see them regularly. She was wrong.
Ann Neumann and James Sprankle
Co-Published with the Virginia Quarterly Review. If faith fosters separateness, how do you navigate healthcare for your children? A #VQRTrueStory essay.
Alissa Quart
NEWS | ANALYSIS
Co-published with TIME with additional support from Capital & Main. Middle class and rural parents are on the receiving end of an emerging type of system that could be called daycare inequality.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Guardian with additional support from Capital & Main. The apps and robots celebrated by Silicon Valley wunderkinds are helping to make previously white-collar lives ever more precarious.
Donnell Alexander
Co-published with Jezebel. (Excerpt) The majority of child support debt is owed by parents making less than $10,000.
Stephanie Land
Co-published with AlterNet. Conservative lawmakers are making it harder for the hungry to feed themselves.
Matt Eich
Co-published with National Geographic. Matt Eich has been photographing the Sellers, a low-income family with two deaf children, for ten years. As they've grown closer, Matt has been given intimate access to the Sellers' lives.
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman
Co-published with Feature Shoot. This apocalyptic photo series explores the bleak, desperate circumstances that many American children face.
Stephanie Land
Co-published with AlterNet. I use food stamps. That doesn't mean you get to create a cruel Facebook meme about me.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Pacific Standard. Photography by Alice Proujansky supported by EHRP. More Americans are working late-night and early-morning hours. Who's looking after their kids?
Seth Freed Wessler
Co-published with NBC News. Child advocates say that foster youth are particularly vulnerable to identity theft because they bounce from one home to another, giving an expanding group of adults access to their private information.
Alice Proujansky
NEWS | ANALYSIS | PHOTOGRAPHY
Co-published with The New York Times. Increasingly, even middle- and upper-class parents are finding that day care is nearly impossible to afford.
Susan Faludi
Co-published with CNN. Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" venture is being rightly attacked for all the wrong reasons. What's been missed is a real opportunity that Sandberg's proposal unintentionally spotlights: the opportunity to talk honestly about feminism and class.
Gabriel Thompson
Co-published with Mother Jones. Nearly 1.4 million American households live on $2 per person. Gabriel Thompson reports from one of the nation's poorest areas.
Health
Laura Strausfeld
Co-published with Alternet. Now that we’re living under a political regime hostile to women's health, there's more risk than ever for those using this essential commodity.
Maia Szalavitz
Co-published with VICE. Doctors are already getting spooked out of prescribing painkillers, and new rules could make life in some of America's struggling communities even worse.
Maisie Crow
Film by Maisie Crow. Premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the LA Film Festival. Maisie Crow expands on her Emmy-nominated documentary The Last Clinic, revisiting the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi.
Lisa Desai and Yasmeen Qureshi
Co-published with PBS NewsHour with additional support from the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. In Florida, one of the nation’s largest waterways is in danger as septic tanks are disrupting the fragile ecosystem of the state’s Indian River Lagoon.
Elizabeth Kadetsky
Co-published with Vox. She's been in and out of shelters and rehabs. I can’t fix her. But she also can’t fix herself.
Maia Szalavitz
Co-published with The Verge. No, Native Americans are not biologically more likely to become alcoholics. What's really to blame? Poverty, trauma, and colonialism itself.
Abby Ellin
Co-published with the The New York Observer. Advocates for overweight Americans see wellness programs as thinly veiled fat discrimination.
Lisa Di Venuta
Co-published with Alternet. When mental health professionals misdiagnose their patients, the treatment can be more dangerous than the original condition.
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Co-published with The Atlantic. Darryl Lorenzo Wellington reports on the multi-billion dollar plasma donation industry, including his own experience “plassing” for cash.
Cryn Johannsen
Co-published with Huffington Post. The national student loan crisis has reached a critical level, and the pressure of massive debt is causing current and former students to take their own lives.
Heartland & South
Appalachian Media Institute
Co-published with Oxford American. The third installment in a series of four posts, featuring films produced in collaboration between the youth filmmakers of the 2016 Summer Documentary Institute at Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute and filmmaker Jordan Freeman.
Elliott Woods
Co-published with The Guardian. Elliott D. Woods spent time in Phillips County in northern Montana, where public land is a source of life to which ranchers are intimately connected. If the plan to transfer lands to the states succeeds, it will mean a radical restructuring of the economy and the culture of the West.
Elliott Woods
Co-published with The Guardian. Ranchers in the west have been struggling for decades. Now a new threat looms: public land might be taken away from them
Housing
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Guardian. Don’t scoff: psychological and social science research supports that living amid the wealthy even when you are upper middle class is bad for your mental health.
Jennifer Dworkin
Co-published with Bill Moyers & Company. For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.
Maureen Drennan
Co-published with Refinery29. An intimate look at life in this "hidden gem" within New York City, through the eyes of the young women who live there.
Jennifer Dworkin
Co-published with The Nation. For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.
David Dayen
Co-published with The Intercept. These are the people Donald Trump wants to have running our economy.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with The Establishment. After being heavily governed your whole life—told when to eat, when to sleep, when to come home—you’re suddenly set free to make your own choices. There is no other stop after foster care if you screw up—except for the emergency homeless shelter.
Katherine Stewart
Co-published with The Advocate. The LGBT men and women who helped establish the modern identities of cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia are getting pushed out.
Preston Gannaway/GRAIN
Co-published with California Sunday. Forty-eight percent of San Francisco’s homeless youth are LGBTQ. Many find their way to the city’s largest youth homeless shelter.
Laura Kiesel
Co-published with AlterNet. For the creative class, living in the cities that advance their aspirations means accepting a Faustian bargain.
Gary Rivlin
Co-published with The Nib. Illustration by Jackie Roche. A comic about a Lower Ninth resident who invests everything he’s got back into his community.
Donnell Alexander
Co-published with Fusion. Motels aren't just a place for travellers to sleep—they've also become the front lines in America's housing crisis.
Lauren Sandler
Co-published with The Guardian. As inequality grows across the nation, are the rich becoming desensitized to the needs of the poor?
Laurie Udesky
Co-published with Huffington Post. In a California county, one in four residential care homes for the elderly has been in foreclosure since 2008.
Rose Aguilar
Co-published with The Nation. Life on San Francisco’s streets for women over 50 is filled with hardships, small and large.
Immigrants
Leighton Woodhouse & Pedro Armando Aparicio
Co-published with The Intercept. After 17 years in Houston, Escobar became one of more than 40,000 people arrested for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement between January and May under President Trump’s “bad hombres” pledge.
Leighton Woodhouse & Pedro Armando Aparicio
Co-published with The Intercept. With such a vast displaced population, Tijuana is a place where people who did not intend to live there learn to become a community.
Roya Hakakian
Co-published with The Guardian. By opening its doors to disillusioned Iranians such as artist Shahrzad Changalvaee, the US has welcomed some of its greatest minds. But what now?
Black Box
Co-published with Narratively. After they are released from the largest detention center in the country, immigrant families find a lifeline in a modest San Antonio home.
Black Box
Co-published with The New York Times. Welcome to Dilley, Texas, the small town that's at the heart of the national immigration debate.
Daniel Hurtado
Co-published with Fusion. Daniel Hurtado, a 21-year-old undocumented immigrant, shares intimate photos from his life, capturing his dreams and struggles.
Alice Proujansky
David Rosenberg writes on Slate's Behold blog about Alice Proujansky getting to know Guido and Blanca while shooting "Class Struggles".
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Pacific Standard. Photography by Alice Proujansky supported by EHRP. School choice is tough for even the savviest parent. For immigrants, it can be hell.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Nation with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Photography by Alice Proujansky supported by EHRP. When only US wages can support families in the Global South, parents and children divide to survive.
Inequality
Phil McKenna and Cassi Alexandra
Co-published with InsideClimate News and The Huffington Post. The losing fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline has brought into high relief the dire living conditions of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native Americans.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with Proximity Magazine. On being skipped over or paraded in front of a crowd.
Jennifer Dworkin
Co-published with The Nation. For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with Lenny Letter. During a chaotic coming-of-age, a Christmas tree was a symbol of hope and love.
Dale Maharidge & Matt Black
Co-published with Smithsonian Magazine. To mark the 75th anniversary of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Matt Black and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge, traveled to California's Central Valley, Cleveland and northern Maine to chronicle America's working poor.
Carla Murphy
Co-published with Fusion. Two years ago, this town razed a fence that segregated a housing project from a suburb. Did it change anything?
Katherine Stewart
Co-published with The Nation. Americans can’t afford to retire in the United States, so many are moving south of the border, trading one form of inequity for another.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with The New Yorker. Georgia has long struggled to rein in payday lenders, but even ambitious regulations can’t always stop the predatory practice.
Sarah Smarsh
Co-published with Longreads. Nearly nine out of ten cops are men. Sarah Smarsh discusses the police force’s gender problem and a Wichita woman’s efforts inside the criminal justice system that failed her.
Eric Alterman
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. One of the most pressing causes of economic inequality is spatial inequality. But to solve this big problem, you first have to understand it.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with WAMU | Washington, DC. The Padua Project in Fort Worth, Texas, has set a goal of getting 100 poor people out of poverty in three years — with a job, three months’ savings and off government assistance.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with WAMU | Washington, DC. Of all the efficiencies created in trying to end poverty for good, the Padua Project may have made its biggest dent simply by getting organizations with the same mission to work together.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with WAMU | Washington, DC. If a nonprofit is going to end poverty, it has to take a deep personal interest in its clients. Caseworkers for the Padua Project do it by having client loads that are a fraction of similar social service agencies, but does it work?
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with WAMU | Washington, DC. For five decades, tens of thousands of people have fought poverty. Trillions of dollars have been spent, but poverty is a stubborn enemy. We keep fighting it, but we never seem to win.
Kavitha Cardoza
Co-published with WAMU | Washington, DC. 14,000 nonprofits target poverty in the D.C. region, yet poverty remains. Kavitha Cardoza reports on the Padua Project, a nonprofit in Fort Worth, Texas, that is taking a different approach.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with Jezebel. It is possible to break the rules and get away with it in America—but only if you're rich.
Matt Eich
Co-Published with The Los Angeles Times. Ohio voters discuss how they feel about America and what they hope for in a president.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with The Nation. Universities are becoming billion-dollar hedge funds, but students are beginning to fight back.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with The Intercept. If we want to fight surveillance, we need a new way to understand
privacy and pleasure.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with The New York Times. The poor don't need to feel more "gratitude"—they need decent pay and better working conditions.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with TomDispatch and the Los Angeles Times. As the lifespans of the wealthy increase, working-class white people are dying younger and younger. Are anger and racism to blame?
Lynn Parramore
Co-published with Vice. Companies are building hideouts designed to survive the end of the world—but only for the superrich.
Virginia Sole-Smith
Co-published with Harper's Magazine. Twenty years later, Bill Clinton's welfare reform is still making it harder for poor Americans to access a fundamental right: the right to assistance.
Astra Taylor
Co-published with VICE. Wall Street lends money to cities with giant strings attached. The result? An endless cycle of layoffs and slashed spending.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with The Guardian. There’s something wrong with the fact that affluent people can afford to write about minimum-wage jobs while the people who actually work them can't.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with Jezebel. The story of these people was not one of a lack of resilience but of too many systems to navigate.
Lauren Sandler
Co-published with The Guardian. As inequality grows across the nation, are the rich becoming desensitized to the needs of the poor?
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Salon. Civic poetry is not your precious, otherwordly poetry. It's public, it's political -- about the hard stuff of life.
Donnell Alexander
Co-published with Salon. Lean seasons had always been part of my writing life, but this time I was dead broke.
Reproduction
Maisie Crow
Film by Maisie Crow. Premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the LA Film Festival. Maisie Crow expands on her Emmy-nominated documentary The Last Clinic, revisiting the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi.
Published by The Cut. Maisie Crow's Jackson tells the story of the lack of abortion access in Mississippi, revisiting the only remaining clinic in the state which was the focus of her Emmy-nominated film The Last Clinic. Produced by Alissa Quart and Barbara Ehrenreich of EHRP.
Maia Szalavitz
Co-published with The Verge. Harsh pregnancy drug laws keep many women from seeking prenatal care, and that puts mother and baby at greater risk.
Yoruba Richen
Co-published with New York Magazine and The Atlantic. Produced by Alissa Quart. Why shouldn't abortion, adoption, and childbirth services all exist within the same building?
Marcela Valdes
Co-published with The New York Times Magazine. In 1975, 10 women filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that a Los Angeles medical center was systematically sterilizing Spanish-speaking mothers.
Jody Rogac
Co-published with MSNBC (excerpt). In huge swaths of conservative America, abortion services have become less and less available. Here are the faces of the people still doing this dangerous work—and the faces of their opponents.
Jessica Grose
Co-published with Slate. Women need more options when dealing with the emotional—and financial—cost of a lost pregnancy.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The New York Times. Photography by Alice Proujansky supported by EHRP. In an effort to reframe reproductive care as a continuum that spans both birth and abortion, Buffalo Womenservices offers “full-spectrum reproductive health” services.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Reuters. In Mississippi, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, pro-life groups such as 40 Days for Life are working to bring about “the first abortion-free state where abortion is legal but it’s simply not available.”
Maisie Crow
MULTIMEDIA | FEATURE | ANALYSIS
Co-published with Atavist. Written excerpt in The Atlantic by Alissa Quart. Photos in Wired and Slate. Quart's reported piece accompanies Crow's Emmy-nominated documentary The Last Clinic.
Workers
Abby Ellin
Co-published with Fortune. As New York City limits Airbnb rentals, the cottage industries that serviced them has been hit particularly hard.
Sarah Jaffe
Co-published with The Nation. Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism.
Alison Stine
Co-published with Reuters. Appalachia needs a new chance to do what it does best: make it work.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with DAME Magazine. Activists like undocumented worker Sandra Henriquez have put their lives on the line to protest injustice. Under a Trump administration, progressives might want to follow their lead.
Melissa Chadburn
Co-published with Los Angeles Review of Books. Tactics to combat pay theft and protect the writing community.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with Fusion. Photography by Alyssa Schukar. The Ft. Wayne Workers’ Project is uniting working class Americans of all beliefs, ethnicities and backgrounds.
Alissa Quart
Co-published with The Nation. For the ride-share company, teacher/drivers are both a marketing coup and an exploitable labor force.
John Koopman
Co-published with Fast Company's Co.Exist with additional support from Capital & Main. I used to write for a newspaper. Now I'm an Uber driver: "Thanks to Uber, I am not poor. I am just ... nobody."
Alissa Quart
Co-published with Fast Company. The Coopify app lets you order things like house cleaning or babysitting right from your phone. But the people providing the services come from worker-owned co-ops—not big tech companies. Photography by Alice Proujansky.
Alice Proujansky
Co-published with Narratively. Alice Proujansky captures the overwhelming, inspiring reality of being a working mom in 2016.
Gabriel Thompson
Co-published with The Nation. Emeryville, California, recently passed the highest city-wide minimum wage in the country. Here’s how workers’ lives changed—and how they didn’t.
Helaine Olen
Co-published with The Atlantic. Fast-casual restaurants may appeal to yuppies, but for workers they're hardly different from McDonald's.
Jessica Bruder
Co-published with Reuters. The company recently announced 6,000 new full-time openings at 19 of its distribution centers. Eager applicants are lining up to join the ranks of the "Amazombies." But are these jobs worth it?
Alice Hines
Co-published with Talking Points Memo. Multi-level marketing has taken Utah by storm, but for these companies to be successful, their associates have to ignore reality and enter a fantasy land.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with TIME. The housekeeper’s job is to clean, change sheets, restock amenities and exit the room without leaving any personal traces behind. They are paid to be invisible and usually are.
Joseph Williams
Co-published with The Atlantic. After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans return to day after day.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with The Atlantic. Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can't save up enough to move on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Co-published with Creative Time Reports. While women’s responsibilities have grown both inside and outside of the house, their pay has not.
Nona Willis Aronowitz
Co-published with Next City. For 10 years a massive income gap has been widening across Silicon Valley. Last November, however, the residents of San Jose voted in favor of a small but significant change: Raising the city’s minimum wage from $8 to $10 per hour.
Evelyn Nieves
Co-published with AlterNet. This is a story about one tribal nation grappling with the stresses of life during oil time - housing, traffic, crime, crowds, their quality of life.
Dashka Slater
Co-published with Salon. Romney says Obama "gutted" welfare reform by waiving work requirements. But what if there's no work to be found?
Gabriel Thompson
Co-published with Mother Jones. Gabriel Thompson writes about his stint doing "on demand" grunt work for one of America's hottest growth industries.
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Someone who has been addicted to painkillers or heroin could be on the alternative medication, under a doctor's watch, for many years, similar to a diabetes patient or someone with a chronic condition like high blood pressure.