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A pattern of failures
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A Searchlight investigation reveals serious abuses within New Mexico's treatment foster care system.
For contracts, New Mexico increasingly looks elsewhere
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A Searchlight investigation finds billions of taxpayer dollars have flowed out of state since 2013 due to government purchases that are not filled — or cannot be filled — by New Mexico companies.
Related: New Mexico is ignoring its own rules on vendor transparency
New Mexico lawyer faces death threat over work for immigrants
What happened to Allegra Love and her colleagues, experts say, is a terrifying example of the open threats and unrelenting hostility that immigrant advocates have begun to face nationwide.
New Mexico ranks last in survey of child well-being
Child advocates said the state's worst-in-the-nation showing should be a wakeup call for policymakers, but also stressed something unexpected. With nowhere to go but up, opportunity abounds for New Mexico.
Immigration
In handwritten letters, detained immigrant fathers describe family separation
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The men describe their anguish at being taken from their children and not knowing their children’s whereabouts for weeks or months. “I felt like I was dying,” wrote one father, who did not give his name or country of origin.
Education
Brain Drain: Graduates leaving New Mexico behind
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No state can afford to lose high-quality, educated workers, the key ingredient for a thriving economy. Impoverished New Mexico can afford to lose them least of all. But state officials say there is no telling when the out-flow will end.
New Mexico's Children
Mississippi’s gains may hold lessons for New Mexico
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How does a state climb off the bottom rung in measures of child well-being? Can New Mexico take a cue and move up a few notches itself, by next year?
Immigration
For New Mexico’s undocumented, a cloud of fear
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Families throughout New Mexico have been wrestling with a quiet threat: a steep increase in deportations of immigrants with no criminal record.
New Mexico's Children
For Albuquerque 11-year-old, ‘it’s father-son time all the time’
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Single father Antonio Cordova says in his household, it is "father-son time all the time." He runs his own small business to provide for his family, while making sure his three boys are staying on the right track.
Education
Success by degrees
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Adult education can be a path to generational change. But in New Mexico, where it is estimated that a third of the adult population could benefit, only about 3 percent are served.
New Mexico's Children
30 Million Words
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A Florida city nurtures babies with ‘Brain Bags’ for parents. Can New Mexico do the same?
This is Home
A border town without playgrounds
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Anthony presents some of the highest risks to infants and young children in a state that is already at rock bottom of the national barrel on child well-being. By the state health department’s reckoning, it’s the third-worst place in New Mexico to be a child.