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Report: NM Unemployment Could Be High Until 2015

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Unemployment is here to stay for a while in New Mexico. That's the gloomy outlook in a new report out this week that shows the Land of Enchantment had the third-worst job-loss numbers in the country for June. Unemployment here is currently at 8.2 percent, and report author Gerry Bradley with the Fiscal Policy Project at New Mexico Voices for Children says that rate could remain high, above six percent, until 2015.

"You know, if there isn't a pickup in the private economy by the middle of next year when all of the Recovery Act money starts going away, we're going to be in a lot of trouble."

Bradley says New Mexico's unemployment problem can be traced back to the bursting of the bubbles in housing and resource extraction at the onset of the recession.

"There were fewer jobs in both construction and mining. I think what the issue is, is that nothing else has come along to re-energize employment in New Mexico in the near term."

Bradley says the federal stimulus spending has so far kept the state from going into an economic free fall, but it has not been enough. He says more federal help is needed because the state is not in a position to stimulate its own economy.

The report, "New Mexico Revenues and Expenditures: A Mid-Recession Snapshot," is at
www.nmvoices.org





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