USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner (right) announced today that 2700 residents of Acoma Pueblo contending with ground water contamination will benefit from a newly constructed $6.4 million dollar wastewater system funded by the USDA.
In making the announcement, USDA Rural Development [...]
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 the federal government to cover the gaps. New Mexico’s fund [...]
A story posted by the Albuquerque Journal reports that even without a public option or overhaul of Medicare, Sen. Jeff Bingaman believes a health care reform bill could bring “big benefits” to uninsured Americans.
Lea County has the highest percentage of adults who smoke in New Mexico, writes [...]
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This Thursday, Dec. 10, Santa Feans will come together again in memory of the four teens killed in the DWI car accident on June 27. The victims are [...]
USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner congratulated the community of Columbus, New Mexico, which will benefit from $54.5 million in USDA Rural Development funds to Sappire Energy. The company will build and operate a pilot, demonstration and commercial scale bio-refinery facility in Columbus, according to a statement [...]
The use of food stamps, the federal program, has increased dramatically during the recession, reports the New York Times. Food stamps pays benefits to individuals and families making around the poverty level — around $22,000 for a family of four. Like the rest of the nation, use of food [...]
More than half a million New Mexicans could benefit immediately if health care reform passes Congress and is signed into law by President Barack Obama, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report is available on HealthReform.gov.
According to the administration’s [...]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of a new report highlighting the benefits of health insurance reform for New Mexico. Click for a copy of Health Insurance Reform and New Mexico: The Case for Change.
“Families, seniors and businesses are all suffering under the health care status quo,” [...]
Here's video of Sen. Tom Udall's speech on the Senate floor this morning about the health insurance reform bill in the debate leading up to a cloture vote to permit the bill to move forward. You can read his remarks here (pdf).
Senator Udall noted that the vast majority [...]
Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid, the government’s low-income health insurance program, to cope with a projected budget shortfall of $300 million next year, the Associated Press is reporting.
Human Services Department officials told lawmakers on Thursday that Medicaid benefits and eligibility probably would be [...]
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 reports.California faces a nearly $21 billion budgetary shortfall — [...]
Approximately $1 million in federal grants is coming to the state to improve distance learning and telemedicine, the AP reports. The grants are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and will benefit seven counties around the state.
The Farmington school board has awarded $1.4 million to double the [...]
