Economic Hardship Reporting Project

About
We find new ways to approach the coverage of poverty & economic hardship with a team led by Barbara Ehrenreich, Gary Rivlin & IPS.
Mission
This project will find new ways to approach the coverage of poverty and economic hardship: Just telling compelling stories of individuals and families isn’t enough. We will link these stories to the larger economic picture, including the current attack on the traditional guarantors of economic security -- government and trade unions; extreme- and deepening- inequality; and the decline of the middle class.
Description
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, led by best-selling investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich and the Institute for Policy Studies, places this country’s crisis of poverty and economic insecurity at the center of the national political conversation. Unemployed, underemployed and anxiously employed Americans need to know that they are not alone, that the current economic crisis is not their fault and that they are not always getting the information they need to find solutions.