
Workers in Phoenix experience higher rates of inflation than the rest of the country. Healthcare workers, in particular, are experiencing the pinch.
Western Work is a High Country News series produced in collaboration with The Guardian. The COVID-19 pandemic, technology, emerging industries and a changing climate have drastically morphed the labor force of the country —and particularly in the West. The Western Work series tells the story of workers whose jobs are emerging, adapting or fading and captures a mosaic of such a central quality to Western life: work.