‘Am I Even Fit To Be a Mom?’ Diaper Need Is An Invisible Part of Poverty in...
“Parents cannot use federal aid to pay for diapers, and are often forced to come up with other solutions, using maxi pads or towels to keep their children clean and dry. In rural America where aid is...
View ArticleThe Death Spiral of an American Family
In this heartbreaking portrait of one American family, Eli Saslow offers a look at “backwards mobility” and the country’s collapsing middle class. It had been almost a month since Dave, 39, found his...
View ArticleLoans Got Me Into Journalism. Student Debt Pushed Me Out.
Carrington J. Tatum, a first-generation college graduate who’s passionate about reporting that makes a real difference in the lives of marginalized people, decided to walk away from journalism because...
View ArticlePregnant, Homeless and Living in a Tent: Meet Mckenzie
In 2018, reporter Gale Holland, photographer Christina House, and videographer Claire Hannah Collins spent time with young unhoused people in an encampment above the Hollywood Freeway. Their...
View ArticleThe Radical Plan for Vaccine Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the reliance on Big Pharma in the global North to supply life-saving vaccines to the rest of the world is ineffective and dangerous. In this in-depth feature, Amy...
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‘Some Things Never Leave You’: Christian Livermore on Poverty’s Indelible Marks
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Christian Livermore | We Are Not Okay | October 2022 | 5,780 words (21 minutes) “Perhaps home is not a place...
View ArticleThe Safest Place
Reporter Noelle Crombie spent a year at an alternative high school in Gresham, Oregon, documenting the impact of skyrocketing gun violence on the students, teachers, and support staff. The result is a...
View ArticleA Mother’s Exchange for Her Daughter’s Future
This essay defies easy description. It is about love. It is about perseverance. It is also about many cruelties—the cruelty of poverty, of terminal illness, of grief, of generational trauma: What you...
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Relentless Toil: A Reading List About Filipino Laborers
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. What happens when the only way to ensure the survival of the people you love the most is to leave them behind?...
View ArticleWhat $500 Means to Zinida Moore
Zinida Moore works multiple jobs. The mother of three typically goes from an overnight shift at one job to another one in the morning. She was one of 5,000 Chicago residents who were given monthly...
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