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Western work

In this new series, published in collaboration with High Country News, we look at the future of jobs in the American west

24 October 2022

  • José Beltrán leaves his hospital job in Phoenix, Arizona, after dark. Beltrán works 12 hour shifts as a certified nursing assistant in a COVID-19 unit. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022 Phoenix, Arizona—José Beltrán poses for a portrait outside the hospital he works at from before dawn to well past dusk in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. CREDIT: Ash Ponders for High Country News : José Beltrán

    Working a 65-hour week and struggling to make ends meet: welcome to Phoenix

    Residents plan to ‘pay double’ in the Arizona metropolis, which has the highest inflation rate in the US

10 October 2022

  • LOS ANGELES — Dr. Earyn McGee, a herpetologist and the creator of the popular #FindThatLizard social media game, looks for lizards in Inglewood’s Kenneth Hahn Park on Sept. 29, 2022. When she finds lizards, she often takes photos to use in the Instagram community game or lassoes them to take stool samples that help in her research of lizard habitats and eating habits as it relates to climate change. Tara Pixley for High Country News

    Can you #FindThatLizard? One scientist is tapping the tools of social media to transform her field

    Scientists of color are disrupting the rules of historically colonial institutions in Stem and academia. For Earyn McGee, that means engaging with her public through games

3 October 2022

  • The crew unloads old shells from the boat to prepare for a harvest. Image Credit: Jovelle Tamayo/High Country News

    Why the shellfish industry is struggling to hire and retain workers

    Climate change, immigration crackdowns and housing costs shake up the country’s largest shellfish farm

26 September 2022

  • Gurpreet Singh checks on his truck at an exit off I-55 near Pocahontas, Ill., on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Singh, said "Apart from the loneliness, when I first began trucking in America, the scariest thing was driving on icy roads in winter."

    70-hour weeks, taking selfies for Ice: life as a migrant trucker in California

    Like many of the state’s long-haul truckers, Gurpreet Singh is awaiting asylum hearings amid a life of extreme uncertainty

19 September 2022

  • The remains of two unidentified missing migrants share a single box in the ‘Bone Box Trailer’.

    ‘The numbers kept going’: the forensic office identifying human remains at the border

    Amid a shortage of forensic pathologists, Arizona’s Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner has identified thousands of those who lost their lives in the Borderlands

    This piece is co-published with High Country News


12 September 2022

  • DeDe Orton joins Link Feesago during a video call to his family on the last day DeDe’s was open to the public.

    What’s lost when a family-owned diner closes for good?

    More than 90,000 mom-and-pop restaurants have closed in the last two years. DeDe’s, in Utah, is one of them

5 September 2022

  • HCN<br>Kristy Warren, left, the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, speaks with Carlena Braun, fifth grade teacher, during a tour of Chester elementary school on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, in Chester, California. (Sara Nevis)

    She thought Covid-19 was the worst thing to happen to her schools. Then the fire came

    Meet the woman leading a rural Californian school district through climate disaster
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