Founded by Barbara Ehrenreich, it funds and co-publishes independent journalism at publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, Teen Vogue, and Vice with the aim to mobilize readers of these mainstream outlets to query and disrupt systems that perpetuate economic hardship.
EHRP's work has been profiled by outlets such as Vogue, Forbes, Democracy Now!, the Nonprofit Quarterly, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the International Journalists Network.
[1] In a 2015 article published in the Guardian, she wrote, "In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty," summing up the media climate EHRP aims to transform.
"[1]The EHRP funds and co-publishes independent journalism at publications including the New York Times, the Guardian,[3] the New Yorker, Teen Vogue, and Vice.
The organization also supports TV segments, including economic reporting by KITV’s news desk in Hawaii, and documentaries produced by outlets like PBS's Frontline, Scientific American, and The Intercept.
[5] She told Columbia University's alumni magazine, "It’s often hard for people to understand how broader systems impact inequality, so my goal is to tell human stories.
EHRP's investigation with USA Today,[13] called "Dying For Care," was cited by the Biden administration in its argument for reform of the U.S. nursing home industry.
[21] That same year EHRP was named Best Non-Traditional News Source in NYU's 2021 American Journalism Online Awards[22] In October 2021, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned EHRP's "Boss Workers" project, a collaboration with Mother Jones and Solutions Journalism Network that documented the rise of worker co-ops during the pandemic, as an example of a story "of democracy working in hopeful ways and coolest evidence-based reporting.