Esmy Jimenez

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Esmy Jimenez

For Karyn M., clutching the keys to her own room for the first time brought on a strange combination of grief over her past and gratitude for what’s next. Since being evicted from her apartment in July 2024, the 57-year-old had spent months living in Boston shelters. She had been trying to find some semblance of the stability she had before her life began to unravel — before she lost her job, her housing, and much of her belongings.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Esmy Jimenez |Janelle Nanos

The cost of nearly everything is rising: Housing, childcare, education, healthcare — and now even eggs — are all more expensive in a region that already has a high cost of living. And wages aren’t keeping up, leaving many of us feeling squeezed. The Boston Globe wants to know how you’re making ends meet, or whether you are falling behind, for a series about affordability and the middle class. Are you cutting back on the essentials? Considering a move?

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Esmy Jimenez

In many ways, the boys and men of Massachusetts are falling behind. By 4th grade, boys are trailing girls in reading, a gap that widens by the 8th grade, despite the state being a national leader in education. Their life expectancy is worse, too: While women in the state can expect to live to 83, men typically live to 78, and that discrepancy only gets worse for Black and Latino men.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Esmy Jimenez

BROCKTON — Two minutes turned into five as people huddled near the bus stop shelter at the Westgate Mall waiting for the 4A bus. Estefanis S. glanced at her phone impatiently. The bus, which runs every 30 minutes, was delayed, and she was already running behind picking up her 8-month-old from a friend’s house. “You gotta catch [the bus] at the right time,” Estefanis, 30, said in Spanish, as she waited at the bus stop near her work.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Esmy Jimenez |Tiana Woodard

Hundreds of protesters with hand-made signs gathered in front of the State House Wednesday to decry President Trump’s barrage of executive orders, part of a series of demonstrations that took place across the country. But in contrast to the first Trump administration, when every weekend seemed to bring out thousands, protest is not the opposition of choice this time around, organizers say.