Kids Count

New Mexico has improved in key areas of child well-being but our state is still at the bottom. That’s according to the new Kids Count Data Book for 2022. While much of the information was collected before the pandemic it does measure the impact of COVID on anxiety and depression among kids.

In New Mexico 75 percent of kids are children of color. A new Kids Count report found these kids are disproportionately affected by what's called…

Mon. 7/2, 7p: Children are rarely the protagonists of news but their presence in the news is often cause for alarm. On today's show, the alarm sounds…

UPDATE Feb. 19, 2014, at 1 p.m.: SJR 12 is stuck in committee. A measure that would tie the state's minimum wage to inflation passed the Senate and is…