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.
One in five New Mexicans, or about 20.7 of the state’s population, are on food stamps, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York and have now spread to cities including Chicago, Boston and San Francisco (and coming soon to Texas), with more adopting “We are the 99%” as their unifying slogan. In a…
Latino children ages 17 and younger represent the highest number of children living poverty in the U.S., according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released Wednesday.
The U.S. Census Bureau released its findings on income, poverty and health insurance coverage for 2010, finding that median household income declined by 2.3 percent to $49,445, poverty rose to 15.1 percent from 14.3 percent and the number of…
The federal poverty rate in the United States is expected to be 15 percent when 2009 census data is unveiled later this year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. But many think that figure is low because of the way…
New Mexico’s fourth graders don’t read very well, which sets them up to fail as they continue on in school, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. With only 20 percent of fourth graders reading…
A report released Thursday by the non-profit group New Mexico Voices for Children, and funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, suggests the best way to improve the state’s economic outlook, and quality of life, is to improve the well being of the state’s children.
And if that’s the case the state still has a long way to go, because the research outlined in the report shows New Mexico is still one of the lowest-ranked states in the nation in terms of child well being. More …
Albuquerque’s suburbs have a poverty rate of 13.6 percent, which ranks at number 10 in a study of 95 metropolitan areas by the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. think tank. That’s a pretty high number, but at the same time, that rate has dropped slightly since 2000, when it was 14.5 percent. More …
Now is the time to look and see the poverty that surrounds us all. Now, as the tenor of the national debate gets vicious and people shout louder about “socialized medicine” without acknowledging that the current system of underinsurance costs us all billions and takes an untold toll on million of Americans who didn’t choose to be sick.
A new report (pdf) by New Mexico Voices for Children says that the current poverty measure does not accurately convey the real number of New Mexico families having trouble meeting basic needs.
“While the official poverty measure, commonly referred to as the federal poverty level or FPL, is supposed to indicate how much it costs a family to live at a bare minimum, by many accounts the actual costs are roughly twice the FPL,” the report states.
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