By Clara Migoya /El Inde In a lot on Harshaw Avenue, off-road trucks line up in neat rows. The small town of Patagonia is seeing new activity in the nearby mountains now that South32, an Australian mining company, is running round-the-clock mineral drilling operations at the Hermosa-Taylor mine. “The Taylor deposit, just by scale, is…
With almost no one in the U.S. willing to work harvest jobs, farms have imported workers via temporary visas, a program widely criticized for the extensive bureaucratic requirements including housing workers. This winter Yuma area farms are expected to produce around 90 percent of the nation’s lettuce and green crops, meaning these farms need to…
The state of Arizona has twice the amount of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) job openings than workers who are qualified to fill them. With a 2-to-1 ratio of job openings to job seekers, there is an increasing need for new talent in the state’s STEM workforce. “It’s a national issue. I just…
