This photo essay won for Capital & Main the second prize at the 60th annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
And one of the photos won the first place for an image in INN Impact Prize for Nonprofit News Photos honoring photographers for their work in 2017.
This photo essay was produced with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project c
Co-published by :CAPITAL AND MAIN , OC WEEKLY and TALK POVERTY
Text by Amy DePaul.