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New Mexico Voices for Children
Albuquerque, New Mexico ·Founded in 1987 by a group of pediatricians, New Mexico Voices for Children (NM Voices) is a nonpartisan, statewide advocacy organization. We work to create systems-level sustainable change that will improve the lives of New Mexico’s children.
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New Mexico Network publications
Valuing Families at Work: The Case for Paid Sick Leave in New Mexico
- August 19, 2019
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Jacob Vigil, MSW
Half of all workers in New Mexico cannot earn paid sick leave and have to either go to work when they or a family member is sick or stay home and lose pay. This is the highest rate in the nation. Because the federal government has no paid sick leave policy, several states and municipalities have […]
The Cost of Losing Child Care Assistance in New Mexico
- November 17, 2018
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Armelle Casau, PhD, and Sarah Hyde
Everyone should have the opportunity to work hard and achieve family economic security. And hard work should also be rewarded, but some policies are insufficient and inadvertently keep hard-working parents from climbing the economic ladder. Hard-working families with fewer resources may need work supports to help them cover basic necessities like food, child care, or […]
Roadmap to a Stronger New Mexico
- September 20, 2018
- New Mexico Voices for Children
New Mexico’s unique cultural diversity, great natural beauty, and strong sense of community make it a resilient state, but there’s much more work to be done to achieve our full potential. Tax cuts for the wealthy and well-connected have bled New Mexico of the funding we need for critical investments in education, health care, and other […]
New Mexicans are Worth More: Raising the State’s Minimum Wage
- August 31, 2018
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Sarah Hyde
While a handful of New Mexico municipalities – including the cities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe, and Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties – have raised their minimum wages in recent years, the state-wide minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. Still at $7.50 an hour, its purchasing power has eroded considerably over […]
New Mexicans are Worth More: Raising the State’s Minimum Wage
- August 30, 2018
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Sarah Hyde
This report makes the case for raising the minimum wage in New Mexico, which is currently $7.50. The report includes various demographics of the state’s low-wage workforce. It also demonstrates how a wage increase benefits small businesses and the economy. The report’s policy proposals include raising the state minimum wage to $10 in 2020 with […]
New Mexicans are Worth More: Raising the State’s Minimum Wage
- August 16, 2018
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Sarah Hyde
While a handful of New Mexico municipalities – including the cities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe, and Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties – have raised their minimum wages in recent years, the state-wide minimum wage has not been raised since 2009. Still at $7.50 an hour, its purchasing power has eroded considerably over […]
Raising the State Minimum Wage
- January 1, 2017
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Gerard Bradley
Raising the minimum wage is an effective strategy for reducing poverty in New Mexico, particularly given the erosion of its purchasing power since it was last raised in 2009. In the legislative session that begins in January 2017, New Mexico lawmakers should enact legislation to raise the minimum wage to $12.50 per hour by 2021, […]
New Mexico’s Working Families Tax Credit
- January 1, 2017
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Amber Wallin
Our economy is strongest when people have money to spend and, while the rest of the nation is recovering from the recession, New Mexico is still struggling to attract good-paying jobs. When people work full time and still don’t earn enough money to cover the basics, our economy is not at its healthiest. Tax credits […]
Valuing Families at Work: The Case for Paid Sick Leave
- February 1, 2016
- New Mexico Voices for Children
- Gerry Bradley
Paid sick leave is critical for families for health care and economic reasons. Parents should not be forced to choose between caring for themselves or family members and their jobs. The lack of paid sick leave adds stress to families, exposes co-workers unnecessarily, and risks the spread of infectious diseases to children in schools and […]
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems of workforce development under WIOA. This process creates an unprecedented opportunity to build into each state’s plan concrete ideas for using state and local workforce […]