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Public Health New Mexico

Public Health New Mexico

Mission

KUNM‘s Public Health New Mexico reporting project provides in-depth, investigative and continuous coverage of public health in New Mexico, with an emphasis on poverty and educational equity.

We cover the politicians, the policies, and the agencies responsible for sustaining public health and solving poverty. To fully report on these topics, we give voice to those who are voiceless in the media: people and practitioners; advocates and analysts; researchers and activists; and people hoping to build a better way of life. Through our work, citizens are engaged, government is made more accountable, and the profile of public health and poverty is elevated by expanded public discourse and civic engagement.

This project has been sustained by support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and private donors.

KUNM broadcasts on transmitter throughout central and northern New Mexico, reaching more than half the state’s population.  Nielsen Audio Research from Fall 2014 shows 100,000 people a week listen to KUNM.
  • New Mexico has nearly 1,700 retailers authorized to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits, and more than 450,000 people enrolled in the program. The Secretary of the New Mexico Health Care Authority said the state is working to soften the blow of federal cuts that will reduce benefits by more than 20% and cause more than 20,000 people to lose their benefits altogether.
    Daniel Montaño
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    KUNM
    Federal cuts to food assistance through the budget reconciliation bill, better known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” put more than 450,000 New Mexicans at risk seeing their benefits drop by more than 20%, or losing their assistance altogether. But, state officials say they’ll do everything they can to fill gaps left by those federal cuts.
  • A lawsuit led by the Federation of State humanities Councils and Oregon humanities is seeking to restore funding stripped away from local humanities councils earlier this year. In early August, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that found it unlawful that the National Endowment for the Humanities clawed back that funding, which had already been appropriated by congress.
    Sergeitokmakov
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    pixabay
    A lawsuit seeking to restore millions of dollars in grant funding that was stripped from humanities councils across the country will move forward after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in the case earlier this month.