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Economy & Class

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Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE, SCALAWAG UPDATES

Neighbors helping neighbors: a list of coronavirus mutual aid efforts in the South

by Carly Berlin March 20, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Food, power, and place in Northwest Arkansas

by Olivia Paschal January 6, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Hope in the rural South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Story of John H. Merrick and the Largest Black Life Insurance Company in the U.S.

by Imari Scarbrough July 22, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Could a Universal Basic Income Solve Appalachia's Post-coal Poverty?

by Lovey Cooper and Liz Price February 11, 2019October 9, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Under the cover of darkness

by A.D. Carson November 26, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In photos: Vine City through a lens

by C. Rose Smith October 15, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Fighting racism with community and craft beer

by Dolores Chandler September 3, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Property, poverty, and aerosol: Street art's impact on Richmond

by Lauren Francis August 2, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

From Georgia to North Korea, communities are fighting nuclear industries

by Gabrielle Hernandez July 11, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

SNAP trap

by Joel Dillard May 17, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The price of cheap: Bryant Simon's "The Hamlet Fire"

by Sammy Feldblum April 17, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Amazon could speed up displacement in Atlanta

by Gabrielle Hernandez February 22, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Imagining another world in post-Irma Florida

by Lewis Raven Wallace October 19, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Poverty, justice, and education in Roanoke, Virginia

by Mason Adams October 17, 2017November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

New Orleans activists raise heat on raising wages

by Jasmin Mara Lopez October 10, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Two poems: "Blast Log" and "In Prenter Hollow"

by William Woolfitt October 4, 2017December 3, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Don't call the police on poverty

by Lamont Lilly February 21, 2017October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Editorial: Trump and the end of technocracy

by Scalawag Editors December 13, 2016April 16, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The entrepreneur and the citizen

by Scalawag Editors January 21, 2016April 16, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

To catch a carp

by Boyce Upholt January 19, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Is Tennessee for sale?

by Hayley Brundige January 3, 2016September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In the Chesapeake Bay, signs of native oysters' comeback

by Ryan Schuessler November 19, 2015September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How H.B. 318 attacks North Carolina's immigrants and working class

by Erik Lampmann October 8, 2015September 27, 2023

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