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New Mexico is facing a health care worker shortage. This year, legislators had the opportunity to pass bills making it easier to recruit and retain these professionals, but most legislation failed.

The 2025 legislative session kicks off January 21st and think tank Think New Mexico has a set of recommendations that aim to improve the state’s health care system. 91°µÍø spoke with founder and executive director Fred Nathan about New Mexico joining a compact among states that would bring in more doctors to address professional shortages and other measures that would protect patients.

This upcoming legislative session advocates will focus on how to move New Mexico out of its last place ranking in education, especially as school districts across the state continue to see low test scores. Think New Mexico shares its legislative priorities, but also what New Mexicans want to see as a result of recent polling.

The next school year starting in August will be longer after legislation passed in the most recent session was signed by the governor. House Bill 130 mandates extra instructional hours and it has prompted concern among educators already facing burnout.

New Mexicans in financial trouble who take out small loans from storefront lenders are now less likely to get trapped in a cycle of debt. 91°µÍø’s Nash Jones reports a law passed last year went into effect on Jan. 1 that drastically reduces the amount of interest these lenders can charge.

On this week’s Let's Talk New Mexico, we look at what happens next now that voters approved a constitutional amendment to funnel more money from the Land Grant Permanent Fund into early childhood education and public schools.

We have ten days left in this legislative session. This is the point where everything starts moving very quickly - almost frantically - so lawmakers can get to all of the bills they care about before time runs out. On today's #YNMG we’re going to focus on House Bill 132, a bill that would limit interest rates on storefront loans - you know, the kinds of loans given in strip malls that sometimes require a car title as collateral. They’re problematic for the way they tend to cluster in less affluent parts of town and for the exceptionally high interest rates that often keep borrowers trapped in a cycle of debt that’s difficult to escape.

Storefront lenders offering payday loans or title loans are a quick way to get money for people who are often in dire straits financially. And it can be a…

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Think New Mexico has released their latest report along with a new initiative to improve the state’s public schools by moving over $100 million from…