Faced with fragility and uncertainty, gig workers around the world are connecting across borders to challenge platforms’ power and policies.

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

Covid-19 has revealed the depths of the nation’s rental housing crisis—but a group of Minneapolis tenants has shown that a different future is possible.

A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.

Tens of thousands of California’s poorest tenants have endured dangerous conditions in housing run by a single company: PAMA Management.

A mother and son navigate hope and setbacks.

When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.

The life of a troubled childhood friend.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

A Pultzer-winning Washington Post book critic on descending into poverty as he aged.

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

For three days, thousands of uninsured Americans converge on the Wise County Fairgrounds for the largest pop-up clinic in the country.

“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”

More and more Americans are trying to survive on less than $2 a day.

The story of a broken neighborhood.

The women would walk 10 miles from the village to the meat packing plants. Their pay supported drunk husbands and hungry children. When they were told to stop, they broke with tradition and went to the law.

“They played a game of chess with our lives and we lost.”

An excerpt from the winner of the Man Booker Prize.

The murder of Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy in the Harlem projects.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

Paul Gayle wants to raise his daughter, but he needs a job and a home. What he gets is 16 lessons on fatherhood from the Obama administration.

A history of hoboes in America.