Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.
Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Posted inNonfiction
Honey Bees, Worker Bees, and the Economic Violence of Land Grabs
Melissa Chadburn challenges her own belief that environmental justice issues are reserved for people of privilege.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Class Dismissed
When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Class Dismissed
When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It
In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business, Business & Tech, Story
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business, Business & Tech
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Dangers of Renting While Black in Gentrifying Cities
Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Evictionland: More and More Americans Experience Eviction, and Gentrification is Partly to Blame
In this essay supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Joseph Williams investigates the increasingly deft mechanisms at work evicting lower-income apartment dwellers in rapidly gentrifying cities, while chronicling his own descent from white collar Politico reporter living in a luxury apartment, to jobless, homeless man.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
The High Cost of Becoming a Writer as a Single Mom
Stephanie Land endured poverty, loneliness, and more to pursue her dream of being a writer.