http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZLKsNXkGg&index=226&list=PLF8D44703ADEF56CD
All this week….NPR and KRWG News will focus on the anxious voting public. At the heart of that anxiety is the economy…and stagnant wages.
While the national unemployment rate has been hovering at about five percent….things are much worse in New Mexico….which had the highest November jobless rate in the country at 6.8 percent. But Paul Gessing says…this is nothing new. The President of the Rio Grande Foundation says….for the better part of the last decade….New Mexico has been lagging the nation.
Some of the Rio Grande Foundation’s prescriptions for improvement in the state’s economy are extremely controversial….including a so-called right to work proposal that failed in the last legislative session. Governor Martinez has once again put that bill on the agenda during this session. If approved, it would prevent unions from collecting payments for collective bargaining they conduct for non-union members.