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.
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions says they are increasing their efforts to crack down on fraudulent unemployment benefit claims.
New Mexico’s May seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 8.4 percent, down from April’s 8.7 percent, thanks in large part to the federal government hiring temporary workers to conduct the decennial census.
The rate has increased from 6.8 percent from…
The unemployment rate in New Mexico dropped to 8.7 percent in April from 8.8 percent in March. This is up from 6.6 percent from April 2009, according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. The national unemployment rate is at…
New Mexico’s unemployment rate in March was 8.8 percent according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. This is up form 8.7 percent in February and 6.3 percent a year ago.
The national unemployment rate held steady at 9.7…
New Mexico in January had the largest unemployment rate increase in the nation according to the U.S. Labor Department, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican. Unemployment in New Mexico rose to 8.5 percent, a 22-year high, up from 8.2 percent…
The economy in New Mexico fell apart in a way not seen since the 1940s according to a story in the New Mexico Business Weekly. Overall, the state lost 43,000 jobs in 2009; the mining, manufacturing and construction…
The state’s unemployment rate rose to 7.5 percent in August, meaning New Mexicans were unemployed that month than in any other month this year, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today. The figures were released Thursday from the state’s Department…
Former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron isn’t currently being placed on administrative leave from her position with the state Department of Workforce Solutions despite the fact that she was indicted on 50 felony counts related…
Thousands of people failed to receive unemployment insurance checks today, according to a press release from the state Department of Workforce Solutions.
The problem was blamed on technical difficulties.
Former Secretary of State and 1st Congressional District candidate Rebecca Vigil-Giron has landed a state job in Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration. UNM has hired the son of President David Schmidly to a newly created position that pays $94,000.…
