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CHASING THE DREAM: Building Family Assets

Two women and two children standing in a kitchen.

May 20, 2016 – This week on New Mexico in Focus, we learn how some individuals and families in New Mexico are using Individual Development Accounts, or IDAs, to save for goals like attending college, buying a house or starting a business. Prosperity Works offers financial literacy training and matching funds that people save in the program. Join correspondent…

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Food Stamp Assistance

A woman is preparing food in a kitchen.

May 20, 2016 – In recent weeks, a group of current and former employees who processed food assistance applications for the Human Services Department testified in federal court that their supervisors instructed them to falsify applications to deny benefits to people who qualified for emergency assistance. This week, we meet an Albuquerque woman who was denied…

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