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KRWG News: Local Economist Discusses Ways to Review Minimum Wage Increase

By Frank Torres | Published December 9, 2014

KRWG News Published on Dec 8, 2014 Ammendments in the Las Cruces Minimum Wage Ordinance call for City Council to review the effects of the increase before the next increase moves forward. Jim Peach, Professor of Economics at New Mexico…
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LC Bulletin: Digging deeper-Economists look at wages

By cobadmin | Published April 7, 2014

April 4, 2014. Retrieved online April 7, 2014 from Bulletin Staff Report , Las Cruces Bulletin Recent studies, policy alternatives studied alternatively [Excerpts below reprinted with permission: Read the complete Las Cruces Bulletin article] Economists discussing the minimum wage are…
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NMSU Regents approve increase in tuition, fees

By cobadmin | Published April 5, 2012

April 5, 2012 by Julie M. Hughes, NMSU News Center At a special meeting April 5, the New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved a 3.7-percent increase in tuition and fees for resident undergraduate students at the main campus…
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LC Bulletin: National debt on doorstep

By cobadmin | Published September 13, 2011

September 9, 2011. Retrieved online September 13, 2011 from Samantha Roberts, Las Cruces Bulletin America’s problems have countrywide, local impact “We have a real, bona fide, major problem,” said retired U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici about the condition of the United…
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LC Bulletin: Profs: Economy sprouting legs

By cobadmin | Published April 9, 2010

April 9, 2010. Retrieved online: April 9, 2010, from Gabriel Vasquez, Las Cruces Bulletin Signs of life are returning to the local and national economy. A jump in consumer confidence, positive reports in home prices and the first signs of…
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LC Bulletin: Why new reform has entrepreneurs feeling skittish

By cobadmin | Published April 1, 2010

March 31, 2010. Retrieved online: April 1, 2010, from GABRIEL VASQUEZ, Las Cruces Bulletin The $938 billion behemoth – the sweeping health care reform signed into law by the president Tuesday, March 23 – promises to change the way Americans…
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