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Economic Hardship Reporting Project

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We support quality journalism about inequality and poverty in America. Edited by @lisquart and @deborahjianlee. Tweets by @rachsanoff.

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Cool stuff: Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein feature 'Is This The End of Prison Phone Fees?'—that we worked on with Economic Hardship Reporting Project—was nominated for a Deadline Club Award for Magazine Feature Reporting. Give it a read:

motherjones.com/criminal-justi…

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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country

Join Alissa Quart and Anne Elizabeth Moore for a reading and discussion hosted by Bushel Collective in Delhi, NY w/ Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Friday, April 12th at 6:00 pm
bushelcollective.org/events/reading…

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'We must take these sometimes-invisible-seeming diseases seriously, and not assume those who have them are malingering,' writes TPN member Alissa Quart about long Covid.

time.com/6963920/chroni…

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Check out this illuminating and urgent piece by my Economic Hardship Reporting Project colleague Alissa Quart about the costs and challenges of living with chronic diseases. time.com/6963920/chroni…

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In Los Angeles, the steep financial cost of the 2028 Olympics is coming into focus. Grand transportation plans ('28 by '28') have crumbled, & organizers are realizing they'll need $1 billion to run (temporary) buses for the Games. By Rachel Uranga Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/sto…

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75,000 sleep on the streets of LA County and for some reason we're about to spend 1 billion dollars on temporary busses to host the Olympics.

6 people die every day on the streets and we're going to spend billions to host some games.

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My latest for MSNBC: Outrage over California’s new fast-food minimum wage is hard to stomach. 'In the US, we're captives to a turbocapitalist narrative that questions the most miniscule gains for workers while giving egregious corporate greedflation a pass msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

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The US could spend $16 billion on child care. Instead it spends $16.5 billion to sustain Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 12,500 Palestinian children.

An urgent article by Stephen Semler for The Intercept and EHRP: theintercept.com/2024/03/01/bid…

The US could spend $16 billion on child care. Instead it spends $16.5 billion to sustain Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 12,500 Palestinian children. An urgent article by @stephensemler for @theintercept and EHRP: theintercept.com/2024/03/01/bid…
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With so much attention on the state of the economy, what will it take to ensure first-person stories of economic injustice get the coverage they deserve across the media ecosystem?

EHRP’s Alissa Quart, Deborah Jian Lee & contributor Andrea Dobynes Wagner discuss on Your Call Radio ⬇️

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I read and appreciated this one along with a Lauren Oyler Easy Chair from the April 2024 print issue.

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Can a city stop a housing crisis?

In the latest issue of Harper's Magazine, Mya Frazier reports from eviction courts in Columbus, Ohio on the dystopia of automated landlords, with support from EHRP. harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

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In Oregon, children have been separated from their families based on their parents’ IQ scores and intellectual disabilities.

In The Guardian with support from EHRP, Britta Lokting reports on this devastating policy. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

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