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In this file photo from May, Samuel Marcus, from California, and Mandi Makala of France walk through the Santa Fe Plaza. Leisure and hospitality businesses have been hit especially hard in the pandemic. (Eddie Moore/Journal)
80,278
The number of initial unemployment claims filed by New Mexicans between March 19 and April 9. This three-week period, which began after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced sweeping restrictions on business activity to curb the spread of COVID, brought the highest concentration of job losses since the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions began tracking unemployment data.
65,100
The number of total non-farm jobs New Mexico lost between December 2019 and December 2020, accounting for about 7.5% of all jobs in New Mexico. While the state has recovered some of the jobs it lost early in the pandemic, experts agree that a full recovery may still be years away.
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Despite the pandemic and being in its first year of existence, the New Mexico State Ethics Commission wasted no time in 2020. The agency recently took significant enforcement actions against two groups for alleged reporting violations for their independent expenditures. The matters illustrate the varying approaches states take to enforcement and spotlight issues that bedevil groups involved in issue and election advocacy.
The New Mexico State Ethics Commission only got off the ground at the beginning of 2020, after the state legislature passed legislation in 2019 implementing the agency pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by voters in 2018. Similar to the enforcement structure in some other states, enforcement of New Mexico’s campaign finance laws previously had been handled primarily by the Secretary of State and state Attorney General.