Same state, but worlds apart
Janet Greenwell and her husband, Richard, scraped by for years. Now they live in a 4,000-square-foot brick house, their income has grown 40 percent and Janet can stay home to...
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Industrialized Indiana works to offset job losses
When the factories were booming, so was the Midwest. But those days are fading, and so too is the middle-class lifestyle the factories wrought. That's why poverty has been inching...
Scuttled ports deal may ship out dollars
The decision by Dubai Ports World to divest its U.S. holdings may have defused a potentially explosive clash between President Bush and members of his own party. But it is...
Will work for less
Whenever Robert Johnson puts in 12-hour shifts, which is often because he needs the money, he knows he should grab a bite in the factory lunchroom because he's a diabetic....
‘They think I’m an angel’
Huddled over a bar table in the morning's rapidly climbing heat, Erika waits. She waits for customers, for money from them to send home, for something-anything that might release her...
‘This is why I am leaving here’
In the still, cool early morning, Heidi Arcely Ruiz turns the nozzle on the hose. No water, again. Not much food for breakfast either. She feels achy. But there's no...
A flight cut short
She looks like a cornered animal. Her face is bright red, her jeans are covered with dirt, and she's trying to catch her breath, clearly panicked. After saying a last-minute...
‘He said they had to sell her, they needed money’
In the mornings Edita Maldonado makes a cup of coffee for herself and another for her daughter, Rosalinda, just the way she likes it. But then she remembers she cannot...
Risking lives, limbs
Daisy Mendez Mendoza cradles her head in her hands, and cries. What now? Go on to the U.S. or back home to Honduras? After days on the road, she had...
Sudan refugee forgives but doesn’t forget
The women who come to Anne's small, windowless office in Uptown often feel fretful about beginning a new life in the U.S. To ease their anxieties, she often tells them...