I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Joshua Cooper Ramo was on Meet the Press this week discussing his cover story for Time Magazine, “Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay?” Josh, who grew up in Los Ranchos (his dad is KOAT’s Dr. Barry Ramo), is a former editor at Time.
If you want to be scared about the unemployment rate, you can watch the video below.
“It’s terrifying,” Ramo told Meet the Press host David Gregory.
“What’s going on seems to a fundamental shift in the economy in the nature how jobs are created and why jobs are created,” Ramo says. “And that suggests that things could actually get much worse.”
Ramo notes later in the discussion that there have been no net jobs created since 1999.
Also discussing the story was CNBC anchor Erin Burnett and NBC political director Chuck Todd.
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