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 [...]
"Eliminating the pay gap that all too often prevails between men and women is a top priority of" [...]
Heinrich & BarelaThirty-six states confront budget shortfalls totaling $28 billion this year according to an analysis by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Stateline.org reports today. New Mexico is listed in the report as struggling with one of the worst budget gaps as a percentage of its budget — 11.8 percent, [...]
State revenue projections continue to drop, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports. The latest numbers say revenues will fall another $53 million. With these new numbers, the budget gap may potentially be closer to $500M to $600M. Gov. Richardson says he is currently considering consolidating operations and looking at [...]
Governor Bill Richardson today announced his plans for a Hispanic Education Act while speaking at the New Mexico Hispanic Education Solutions Summit in Albuquerque.
“I want New Mexico to be the flagship state for leading the movement to close the achievement gap for our Hispanic students,” Governor Richardson said at [...]
Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and gaps in job numbers to mistakes that put projects in nonexistent congressional districts to spending that never made it into [...]
Governor Bill Richardson’s Budget Balancing Task Force is meeting in Albuquerque at Expo New Mexico and the New Mexico Independent is on hand to liveblog and webcast the proceedings. Come join us as we see what options the task force will be discussing to bridge the budget gap that [...]
