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‘Right-to-work’ legislation targets mandatory union fees
30. December 2014
New study shows New Mexicans making minimum wage can’t afford rent
30. December 2014
Poor federal evaluation costs LANL operators about $57M
30. December 2014
Bernalillo County commissioners shoot down pay hikes
30. December 2014
The Best and the Worst Economic News
30. December 2014
Due to the vicissitudes of our flailing media, the best and the worst economic news of the year, both released over the holidays, seem to have gone entirely unreported. The explanation is that the media are short staffed over the holidays. But so what? News is news.
First, the worst. It has been repeatedly reported that the state’s long term population growth has slowed sharply. This downturn is due to the fact that more people have been moving out of the state than into it. But it had also been repeatedly reported that due to natural population increase—the excess of births over deaths—the population was still growing. Now we know that comforting thought is a fiction...
Continue reading...San Juan water dries up for first time in 40 years
29. December 2014
30. December 2014
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