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.
Laurie Chapman, who has pleaded guilty to 30 counts of federal bribery charges for taking over $237,000 from Santa Fe-based Omni Roofing as a facilities manager for the Corrections Department and was later fired from a post in the Indian Affairs Department in February, has been receiving unemployment benefits since March.
While a New Mexico Workforce Solutions Department report showed the state ranked last in job growth from April 2010 to April 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics measured the state’s unemployment rate dropping from 8.6 percent to 7.3 percent. Joey Peters of the Santa Fe Reporter explains why the state numbers might be wrong.
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions will provide six weeks less of unemployment benefits, up to 93 weeks, after June 12 because of the state’s declining unemployment rate.
New Mexico collected $115.4 million in child support payments, a record, for the fiscal year that just ended June 30, including $8.2 million from unemployment checks, the Santa Fe New Mexican is reporting.
A majority of the $115.4 million, about 60 percent, was gotten through withheld wages, according to the paper.
The striking figure here is the amount of money the state took in from unemployment checks. The state’s net of $8.2 million from unemployment checks easily bested collections through that method in the previous fiscal year — $3.8 million — and $1.2 million in the fiscal year before that, the paper quoted a spokeswoman for the state’s Human Services Department as saying. More …
This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks. If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their federally extended unemployment insurance. Doctors will take a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates, and states will see less money for Medicaid.
The House approved raising taxes on businesses to shore up the program that provides unemployment benefits to New Mexicans who lose their jobs, the Associated Press reports.
New Mexico may be running out of money to pay unemployment benefits, but 25 states are in worse shape, the Washington Post reports. Those state have already run out of unemployment money and have borrowed $24 billion from…
In national news, about one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly to renew existing federally paid extensions, according to a new report and legislators and state officials, the New York Times…
To hear the Democrats tell the tale, the extension of jobless benefits enacted over the weekend will provide those living in high-unemployment states with an additional 20 weeks of insurance. But that’s impossible because of a glitch in the law.
Businesses with federal stimulus contracts have created few jobs in states with the worst unemployment rates, according to data released Thursday by the federal government, reports the New York Times.
New Mexico is standing by its system of paying unemployment benefits by prepaid debit card despite criticism about Bank of America fees, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Some New York nuns claim a Santa Fe gallery owner was…
Could it be that our beloved commuter train may go by a different name soon? A Massachusetts company has sued two New Mexico governmental entities over their use of the name Rail Runner for the commuter train that runs…
Late last month, as Congress was on its way to passing the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan, another economic stimulus measure died a quiet death in the Senate.
