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![New jobs stats; NM economy still worst in region](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eeab6_0d26966af863486e811f8b59d425ad41~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_344,h_194,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/2eeab6_0d26966af863486e811f8b59d425ad41~mv2.webp)
Dennis Domrzalski
Mar 12, 2018
New jobs stats; NM economy still worst in region
New Mexico's economy continues to be the worst performing economy in the region, and it has yet to recover all the jobs it lost during t
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![ABQ economy 90th worst out of top 100 metro areas](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eeab6_730911837cc646b58d0cb2ea907fb52d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_344,h_194,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/2eeab6_730911837cc646b58d0cb2ea907fb52d~mv2.webp)
Dennis Domrzalski
Feb 22, 2018
ABQ economy 90th worst out of top 100 metro areas
Between 2015 and 2016, the Albuquerque metro area had the 90th worst economy of the nation's 100 largest metro areas.
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![Ten years of wandering in the jobs desert](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eeab6_e0c74ec138294af58eb5a818f32a7d42~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_344,h_229,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/2eeab6_e0c74ec138294af58eb5a818f32a7d42~mv2.webp)
Dennis Domrzalski
Feb 6, 2018
Ten years of wandering in the jobs desert
It's now been 10 years, and Albuquerque still hasn't recovered all the jobs it lost during the recession.
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![NM has fourth-worst GDP growth rate in U.S.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eeab6_6d5dcfcfe563436491bbfec287719455~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_344,h_194,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/2eeab6_6d5dcfcfe563436491bbfec287719455~mv2.webp)
Dennis Domrzalski
Jan 24, 2018
NM has fourth-worst GDP growth rate in U.S.
New Mexico's gross domestic product grew by 1.7 percent in the third quarter of 2017, but that was the fourth-worst growth rate among th
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Dennis Domrzalski
Jan 11, 2018
ABQ economy remains one of worst in nation
Albuquerque ranked 160 out of 200 metro areas in terms of being able to create and keep good jobs.
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Dennis Domrzalski
Jan 9, 2018
Calm down; robots won't take every job
"Productivity-enhancing technology has changed the economy in dramatic ways over the past two centuries, and it has not made human labo
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Dennis Domrzalski
Jan 9, 2018
ABQ & NM economies: nearly back to the starting line
It has taken more than 10 years for New Mexico and the ABQ metro area to recover all the jobs lost during the recession.
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Dennis Domrzalski
Dec 22, 2017
NM's Economy Still Worst In Region
New Mexico had a 1.1 percent job growth rate (9,600 jobs) in the year that ended Nov. 30, but as it has been for the past decade, it was the
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Dennis Domrzalski
Dec 21, 2017
NM's Surging Brewing Industry
New Mexico's craft beer industry has exploded the past seven years.
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Pete Dinelli
Dec 18, 2017
Keller in Deep Crap; City Budget Deficit Now Pegged at $40 million
What is amazing is that long serving City Council President Ken Sanchez and Vice President Don Harris both have said the city’s troubled fin