Including working-class whites in stories about failures of the coronavirus economy

Two in the New York Times caught my attention in the last few days.  The first was this one, really a photo essay, by Brenda Ann Kenneally, documenting food insecurity, from New York to California.  It features two families, primarily, one black and one white, and the headline is, "America at Hunger's Edge."   It reminded me of this 2013 story out of Dyersburg, Tennessee, in which Sheryl Gay Stolberg showed both black and white families relying on food stamps. 

The other story is Eduardo Porter's feature on service workers, who have been badly hurt by the coronavirus shutdown.  It's "The Service Economy Meltdown."

As I have written in my scholarly work, it's important that the media depict poverty of all colors.  Conflating poverty and low-income/precarity struggles with blackness is bad for economically struggling folks of all races and ethnicities--including non-Hispanic whites.