The Atlantic • 9th May 2017 'It's Very Hard To Find a Good Man Here' The disappearance of manufacturing and the rise of opioid abuse has hit men in the Rust Belt hard. That’s meant women are left to pick up the pieces.
The Atlantic • 11th July 2016 The Near Impossibility of Moving Up After Welfare In the wake of welfare reform, unemployed people are pushed to quickly find work, any work. But too often those jobs lead nowhere.
The Atlantic • 8th April 2016 When Religious Groups Do What the Government Won't Are faith-based programs for the poor a problem when there's no secular alternative?
The Atlantic • 8th July 2015 Getting Rid of Bosses Worker cooperatives are making a comeback. But can a company succeed if no one is in charge?
The Atlantic • 4th December 2015 When the Government Tells Poor People How to Live What happened when a Massachusetts public housing authority required that tenants work or go to school in order to keep their spots.
The Atlantic • 20th March 2015 Work All Night and School All Day: The Harsh Reality of Paying for College in America A UPS program in Louisville gives students free tuition for working the third shift, but at what cost?
The Atlantic • 28th February 2018 This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.
The Atlantic • 24th February 2016 The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still?
Los Angeles Times • 4th April 2014 The Tougher Workplace A prize-winning series for the Los Angeles Times about how the nature of work has changed in the past few decades.
The Atlantic • 31st July 2015 Colleges are Cutting Lectures, and Costs Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject.
The Atlantic • 26th November 2014 A New Business Strategy: Treating Employees Well While some companies squeeze staff to make more money, a growing number are testing the theory that they can have both profits and happy workers.
The Atlantic • 26th October 2016 'Good' Jobs Aren't Coming Back In the last several years some American companies have moved their operations back to the states, but the resulting factory work isn't providing the prosperity and security that such work once did.
The Atlantic • 12th October 2017 The Barriers Stopping Poor People From Moving to Better Jobs Highly educated people still relocate for work, but exorbitant housing costs in the best-paying cities make it difficult for anyone else to do so.
The Atlantic • 25th January 2016 Crossing the Mexican-American Border, Every Day A profile of Valeria Padilla, one of the thousands of people who cross from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso every day, living a binatinoal existence.
