Both of my parents are retired educators, so my family understands firsthand the importance of secure retirement benefits for educational employees. The New Mexico Educational Retirement Board (NMERB) plays an important role in the lives of our 46,000 retirees and 60,000 active members. They and the Legislature have entrusted NMERB with providing secure retirement benefits to all of New Mexico’s public educational employees and their beneficiaries.
I consider this a sacred trust. Personally, I never want to diminish benefits for our retirees, nor do I like adjusting the plan.
The NMERB Board of Trustees and I have consistently taken a proactive position to ensure that future retirees...
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Haatiishaa aaldi nei? (Autoimmune Disease)
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First, human beings were not designed to be sick.
Second, illness is not the natural condition for human beings or any native creature on the planet. Every living creature has a “spring, summer, fall and winter” season of life but disease as we have come to know it today should not be considered a normal part of the life cycle.
What is it?
Autoimmune represents a broad spectrum of diseases with over 89 million people affected. At the time of this column there are at least eighty-eight (88) different diagnosis for autoimmune conditions that affect different tissues in the body. Lupus, colitis...
International business opportunities thrive in New Mexico
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The longtime trade expert hopes business owners will take advantage of the services his office offers. Finance New Mexico asked Herrera what small businesses can do to boost their bottom line through exporting.
Finance NM (FNM): You head the Office of International Trade at the EDD. Tell us about that.
Edward Herrera (EH): The Legislature created the Office of International Trade in 1990. There had been the EDD, but no division that addressed specific...
Robert Roche: Infrastructure Investment Key to New Mexico’s Growth
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Earlier this year, one of my company’s...
NM 49th for child well-being
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ALBUQUERQUE — While New Mexico is stuck near the bottom in child well-being — ranking 49th out of the 50 states — there is some good news in the annual KIDS COUNT® Data Book, which was set for release on Tuesday, June 13, by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
“We’ve seen really great improvements in measures of health and, as with last year, we can attribute much of that to the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act,” said New Mexico KIDS COUNT Director Amber Wallin. “This is additional proof that the policies enacted at the state and federal levels really do impact the lives of our children and their families.”
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