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Food and Housing Insecurity at NM Colleges

A wooden bridge crosses a pond with calm water, leading to a building surrounded by green trees and bushes.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, we get some context on a recent study with some pretty staggering statistics. According to the University of New Mexico’s Basic Needs Project, more than half of college students in our state struggle to find enough food to eat or a consistent place to sleep every night. To…

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Solutions Not Scapegoats, Please

A row of tents, shopping carts, and personal belongings line a sidewalk in front of a barbed-wire fence, indicating a homeless encampment.

It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this space to write about homelessness, an issue that seems to be stirring more and more public angst around our state, particularly in Albuquerque. As attention has sharpened, the number of homeless people in the state’s largest city has continued to rise. We know that, definitively, through…

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