Most poll workers in Arizona are retirees in their 60s and 70s who are at elevated risk for COVID-19, so younger volunteers are stepping up to help.
Arizona’s eviction and foreclosure rates were already double the national average before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of undocumented youth are working to get 25,000 people to the polls to vote in the November election — because they can't.
"To me, the American Dream meant having the right to vote," says Ylenia Aguilar, who ran for election the same year she became a citizen.
Some teachers have received minimal supplies, including one bottle of cleaning spray per educator and a small number of face coverings.
More than 160,000 Arizonans have signed up for Medicaid since coronavirus-related shutdowns began in March.
Arizona's student-to-counselor ratio is the worst in the nation, with only one counselor for every 905 students.
