Saturday, October 26, 2019

Luna County Unemployment Rate Now Under 10%

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New Mexico’s employment to population rate increased 1.1 points to 56% during the year from September 2018 to September 2019, according to f...
Friday, October 18, 2019

State Job Growth Is 2.2% in September

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uring September unemployment rates were stable in 39 states, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Non-farm wage jobs were “essenti...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Eddy, Lea Boom. Metros Areas Don't

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The one thing sure for me about New Mexico’s 2019 wage job growth is that it isn’t happening in the four metro areas. That should be intuiti...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Jobs Grow for August. Some Confusion seen.

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New Mexico’s unemployment rate, on a seasonally adjusted basis, nudged up a tenth of a point in August as compared to August 2018. The Burea...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Metro Job Growth Lags State

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Arizona ties with New Mexico’s 4.9% unemployment rate the highest in the nine-state southwest quadrant of the country. New Mexico and Arizon...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Home sales flat; Inventory Down; Prices Up

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The pace of closed sales for single family detached homes in metro Albuquerque picked up bit in July with a 59 unit, or 5.2%, increase from ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Government, Military Account for 21.7% of NM Economy

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With wage jobs up 1.8% or 15,200 for the June 2018 to June 2019 year, the gains appear to have been in the 26 rural counties. That’s because...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Abq Mayor Gets Developer's Applause

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Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller brought his enthusiastic self today to NAIOP, the commercial real estate developers group meeting at the Uptown...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Unemployment Rate Hngs Around 4.9%

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New Mexico’s unemployment rate has hung around 4.9% during the past year. It was 4.9% in June, 5% in May and 4.8% in June 2018. On a seasona...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Metro Unemployment Rates Up For May

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The edge comes a little off New Mexico’s wage job happiness with new that three of our four metro areas showed an unemployment rate for May ...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Job Growth Continues, State Adds 15,900 Jobs for May

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New Mexico added 15,900 wage jobs between May 2018 and May 2019. This is a healthy (for New Mexico) 1.9% gain. The unemployment rate was 5% ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Ben Ray Lujan Cop Out of Dad's Political Legacy

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The copy below is part of an email from Rep. Ben Ray Lujan. The email came April 3, a couple of days after Lujan announced his candidacy for...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Abq Homes Sales Pattern Continues

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The pattern of past months continued during February for the metro Albuquerque residential real estate market. The Greater Albuquerque Assoc...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Tribal Economic Development Documents

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For economic development documents cited the the February 2019 column about Native American stories, see: National Congress of American Ind...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Albuquerque Adds 10,300 jobs; Revisions Coming

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The December issue of the New Mexico’s Department of Workforce Solutions Labor Market Review newsletter slipped into the email inbox late th...