Stephan Bisaha
Stephan Bisaha is the wealth and poverty reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom, a regional collaboration between NPR and member stations in Alabama (WBHM), Mississippi (MPB) and Louisiana (WWNO and WRKF). He reports on the systemic drivers of poverty in the region and economic development.
Before joining the team, Stephan spent three years as an education reporter for the Kansas News Service, a network of member stations in Kansas. He also spent a year as a Kroc Fellow for NPR, where he did the data analysis for an investigation into the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, produced Weekend Edition and reported in Birmingham.
He was born and raised in New Jersey. His hobbies include cooking, improv and physical fitness.
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Fired up by a labor movement that’s seen big union victories recently, dollar store workers are organizing in their own way to improve work conditions. -
As payments roll in, guaranteed income recipients reflect on their lives “If I didn’t have that money, then I know I’d be tons, tons more stressed now.”
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Guaranteed income programs are often associated with big cities. A new program aims to help residents in rural Georgia.
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General store owners in the Gulf South are — once again — looking for new ways to get by as high inflation becomes the latest threat to their businesses.
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If successful, the store at 4300 Ambassador Caffery Parkway would be the second in Louisiana and the third in the Gulf South to unionize this year.
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In Her Hands, a guaranteed income initiative for women, is launching soon in Cuthbert, Georgia and its surrounding counties. Here’s how it’s coming together.
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For years, Farish Street has been viewed as a failed business district. But Black business owners are working to shift the narrative of the historic street.
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The successful, 11-to-1 vote happened weeks after a former shift supervisor that led the unionization effort was fired by higher management.
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As 2022's economic woes continue, more people are using vanpools as a cost-effective way to get to work. It’s also helping out their employers.
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Workers at the downtown Birmingham coffee shop cast a near-unanimous vote to become the first Starbucks location in the state to say yes to forming a union.
