High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 10. Who will work in the West’s future company towns? http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17534 As the cost of housing and fuel skyrockets, Bill Croke wonders who – besides immigrants – will be willing to fry the hamburgers and clean the toilets of towns like Cody, Wyo. No publisher Bill Croke Bill Croke service economy cost of living immigration jobs minimum wage housing costs 2010-02-05T09:46:21Z News Article Whatever we do about illegal immigration, somebody suffers http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17503 Philip Cafaro takes a thoughtful look at the impacts of illegal immigration on Colorado’s construction trade. No publisher Philip Cafaro Philip Cafaro illegal immigrants migrant labor construction industry cheap labor jobs 2010-02-05T09:46:03Z News Article Down but not out in Missoula, Montana http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16937 Kathryn Socie works two jobs and still can’t afford to buy a house in Missoula, but she believes that her life in Montana is well worth the sacrifice it takes. No publisher Kathryn Socie Socio-economics Kathryn Socie Missoula Montana socio-economics cost of living real estate housing prices employment wages jobs Western boomtowns communities affordable housing 2010-02-05T09:43:01Z News Article Sheepherders flock to better-paying jobs http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15973 Wyoming lawmakers are trying to pass a law to prevent sheepherders from quitting their jobs without notice in search of better-paying employment No publisher Emma Brown Wyoming legislature sheep sheepherders jobs employment wages immigrant workers Bryce Reece Wyoming Wool Growers Association Gerald Geis ranchers laws foreign workers visas oil and gas industry construction industry 2010-02-05T08:56:12Z News Article Speaking up for rural Oregonians: Judge Laura Pryor http://www.hcn.org/issues/279/14904 Judge Laura Pryor of Gilliam County, Ore., has led the charge to create the Eastern Oregon Rural Alliance to help eastern Oregon’s small rural communities No publisher Rebecca Clarren Socio-Economics Judge Laura Pryor Gilliam County Oregon Eastern Oregon Rural Alliance small town rural economies jobs Ted Kulongoski Andy Kerr 2010-02-05T09:58:21Z News Article Contradiction http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16301 Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from other Latinos No publisher Jonathan Thompson Communities Socio-Economics Communities in Transition Immigrants Illegal immigrants immigration issues Hispanic communities Latinos Chicanos Sylvia Martinez racism prejudice jobs employment opportunities food processing industry human rights Wayne Allard Marilyn Musgrave Immigration and Customs Enforceme 2011-11-11T21:56:14Z News Article Abandonment http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16298 Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying local jobs sends them north of the border No publisher Michael Marizco Immigrants Mexican economy illegal immigration migrant workers agricultural workers jobs farmworkers Francisco Villa Sonora Pancho Villa Casimiro Castillo tomato growers Mexican farmers NAFTA wages economic opportunity maquiladoras peso trade defici 2011-12-08T23:12:25Z News Article Educating the economy http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16972 Western communities such as Lander, Wyo., are suddenly working hard to lure new colleges to town No publisher Rebecca Huntington Colleges Lander Western communities Corporation university Wyoming four-year colleges North Idaho College Northern Rockies Dave Kellogg culture Catholic College socio-economics Coeur d’Alene jobs education com LEADER NOLS economy 2010-08-06T21:48:56Z News Article Our Green Mountain http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16610 A writer recalls the adventures he had had in Quincy, Calif., 20 years ago, when he was the youthful editor of a small-town independent paper called the Green Mountain Gazette No publisher Jaime O'Neill publishers friendship jobs Quincy journalists alternative media Darrell Dodds newspapers Green Mountain Gazette editors Communities in Transition writers California memory small-town hippie movement Jaime O’Neill independent newspapers independent media 2010-10-26T22:00:43Z News Article Big yellow taxi — in Duke City http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16609 Yellow Cab is anthropology professor Robert Leonard’s poetic account of his after-dark journeys as a cab driver in Albuquerque No publisher N.P. Thompson autobiography night life jobs journeys Yellow Cab prostitutes Mexico cab drivers Albuquerque prose poems anthropologists Socio-Economics New essays short stories life stories Robert Leonard 2010-10-26T21:57:55Z News Article