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COVID-19 Response: Checking For Those Checks

May 5, 2020
A surgical facemask sitting on top of a smattering of $100 dollar bills.

Episode 47 is all about this relief money folks have been promised. Where’s that unemployment? That stimulus money? That small business relief? That food assistance? We hear from Lindsay Cutler from the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty about a sudden deadline the IRS announced for people getting federal benefits—who haven’t filed taxes in the…

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COVID-19 Response: Making It Happen

May 5, 2020
A person wearing a facemask stands next to a machine labeled "ShopBot".

We devote Episode 46 to local companies and makers who have switched up what they create or kicked production into high gear to make personal protective equipment and parts for ventilators. They’re trying to fill the gaps at hospitals, for first responders and for other essential workers in New Mexico. Until the pandemic, 5 Ton Monkey did…

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