Category: La Finca
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Trickle Down: Department of Labor Visits Anheuser-Busch, McDonalds to Celebrate Major Investments
During a press conference Monday morning, Anheuser-Busch announced a $300 million manufacturing investment through its “Brewing Futures” initiative.
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Destination: New Mexico selected as finalist for 2025 World Travel Awards
The selection of New Mexico as a finalist reinforces the state’s growing appeal as a top-tier travel destination and highlights the momentum building across the state’s vibrant tourism landscape.
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Details: Telling the Story of the Nation’s Smallest Businesses
The three largest sectors in 2022 by number of establishments were Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (4,013,209); Transportation and Warehousing (3,854,720); and Real Estate, Rental and Leasing (3,145,367).
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Spacious Skies: February 2025 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Down 4.6% from the Same Month Last Year
When adjusted for seasonality, February enplanements are down 0.2% from January and down 2.6% from the all-time high reached in December 2024.
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Buzzing: Special Operations Forces Week Conference Shines Spotlight on Latest Military Cash Cow
The 2024 edition attracted over 19,000 attendees–almost 7,000 more than Joint Task Force Southern Border has troops engaged in protecting the homeland.
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Scrambled: The Market for Eggs; How Prices Are Hatched
Eggs have a surprisingly sophisticated marketplace, aptly named the Egg Clearinghouse, Inc. (ECI), where billions of eggs are traded every year.
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Peril: Recent Developments in Treasury Market Liquidity and Funding Conditions [a Speech]
[L]iquidity in Treasury cash markets became strained in early April, those markets continued to function, in part because of the resilience of funding liquidity in the Treasury repo market.
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Ants in Industry: U.S. Census Bureau Resources, Data Tools, Website for Small Businesses
The SBA defines a small business as an independent one with fewer than 500 employees.
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Big Money Leaving America: Credit Suisse Services AG Admits to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Assets and Income in Offshore Accounts and Admits that Credit Suisse Breached Its Prior Plea Agreement
The guilty plea by the Swiss corporation is the result of a years-long investigation by U.S. law enforcement to uncover financial fraud and abuse.
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Jobs: Veteran Unemployment Rate was 3.7% in April
In April 2025, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.7%, unchanged from the previous month and up from 3.2% the prior year.
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True Opportunity: Tourism Department initiates new accessibility grant
This special grant opportunity is designed to help empower New Mexico communities to become inclusive and welcoming destinations and enhance accessibility for tourism in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Inside a Navy-Certified Torpedo Repair Depot
The depot at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, in Keyport, Washington, services lightweight and heavyweight torpedoes for all U.S. intermediate maintenance activities across the Navy.
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How to Contact Social Security: What You Need to Know About Recent Changes
If you don’t have an account or access to the internet, you can contact us by phone, mail, fax, or in person.
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Sunland Park: State training awards highlight continued growth in rural jobs
Each month, the JTIP Board meets to review applications for funding new hire training or upskilling current employees.
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Minority Business Development Agency Makes Statement After Federal Funding Eliminated
The Business Resource Center, home to the Small Business Office and the former NM MBDA, remains open and operational.
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Workforce Solutions celebrates National Apprenticeship Day with record growth
This milestone highlights New Mexico’s commitment to expanding career pathways and strengthening the workforce across industries ranging from traditional skilled trades to film and media to higher education and more.
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County Internship Program needs businesses to host students [Updated]
The program needs businesses, organizations or agencies to partner with the County.
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Stablecoins and Crypto Shocks: An Update
As of March 2025, the market capitalization of stablecoins stood at $232 billion, up forty-five times since December 2019.
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Trading Up: Reports from Around the World of Governor Lujan Grisham’s trade mission to Asia
The trade mission aimed to strengthen business ties, promote New Mexico’s leadership in advanced energy technologies and computing, and explore natural gas export opportunities.
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USDA Ensures Illegal Aliens Do Not Receive Federal Benefits
The inadequate verification of an applicant’s identity and citizenship by states is specifically highlighted as contributing to the improper payments of SNAP funds.
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Cost of Business: Walgreens Agrees to Pay Up to $350M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and for Submitting False Claims to the Federal Government
Walgreens will owe the United States an additional $50 million if the company is sold, merged, or transferred prior to fiscal year 2032.
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Governor signs legislation to support infrastructure near military bases
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed two bills strengthening New Mexico’s support for communities near military installations.
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Tax Exemption: NM Department of Veteran’s Services Provide Assistance
House Bill 47 (HB47) recently implemented provisions of the constitutional amendments increasing veteran’s property tax exemption from $4,000 to $10,000
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Essay Question: Is College Still Worth It?
In a two-part blog series, we offer an economic perspective on the value of a college degree, updating our previous research and analysis.
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Kickstarter: Governor signs “shovel-ready” bills to boost business growth
Thirty-six U.S. states already have site-readiness programs, with outcomes proving this approach works.
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Survey: Short-Term Inflation Expectations Increase, Labor Market Expectations Deteriorate
Stock price expectations declined and reached the lowest level since June 2022.
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Register Now: Free Webinar on Immigration Changes and Your Business
The series is kicking off this Thursday, April 17, virtually over Zoom at 2:00 p.m. with “Immigration Changes and Your Business: What you Need to Know.”
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NMSU students successfully complete side hustle course
The Construction Side Hustle course provided a structured, accessible entry point into entrepreneurship, particularly for those at the idea stage.
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The Psychology of Free: How a Price of Zero Influences Decisionmaking
“The best things in life are free.” –Coco Chanel
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Allen Theatres to Pay $250,000 in EEOC Class Age Discrimination Lawsuit Involving Health Benefit Plan
This alleged conduct violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits discrimination in the hiring, firing, and compensation of employees 40 years old or older because of their age.
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Recent Shifts Seen in Consumers’ Public Policy Expectations
Households assign higher likelihoods to a variety of tax cuts and to reductions in a range of transfer programs, while they assign lower likelihoods to tax hikes and expansions in entitlement programs.
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Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear-Powered Data Centers
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies require tremendous amounts of stable electricity generation, and some reports estimate that data centers could consume up to 12% of total U.S. energy production in 2028.
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City of Las Cruces Utilities Internship Program Accepting Applications
The Las Cruces Utilities (LCU) Internship Program is a competitive program that awards internships to students pursuing an associate degree in one of the participating technology programs
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Income Taxes for 2024 are due April 15
If the taxpayer has already filed, they can check their refund status using the “Where’s My Refund” tool on TAP—no account is needed. Refunds can take up to 12 weeks, though most arrive sooner.
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Why Are Credit Card Rates So High?
Surprisingly, credit card interest rates are very high, averaging 23 percent annually in 2023.
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Perspectives on public and private debt
Foreign central banks and investors also help absorb U.S. national debt. Their holdings doubled from about $4 trillion in 2010 to over $8 trillion in 2024.