Programs such as refundable tax credits play a major role in lifting New Mexican children out of poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual supplemental poverty measure released in ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 8.3 million people in Mexico were pulled out of poverty between 2022 and 2024, according to a report released by Mexico’s statistics agency on Wednesday. It marks a nearly ...

Michoacán state Mayor Carlos Manzo, who called for a take-no-prisoners approach to Mexico's drug cartels, is slain while ...

Two million people joined the ranks of the poor in Mexico between 2012 and 2014, official figures showed Thursday, as the poverty rate rose under President Enrique Pena Nieto. Some 55.3 million people ...

Maria Suarez Bonilla dwells in a thatched-roof hut with a dirt floor and no running water. She hopes one day to have a few pesos to build an outhouse. “We just use a hole in the ground now,” Suarez ...

New Mexico came out on top of a list highlighting the states with the highest poverty rates throughout the U.S. New Mexico was ranked first on a list highlighting the states with the highest poverty ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Does New Mexico have the worst rate of child poverty in the nation? It might depend on how you measure it.

Under the program, families, regardless of income, can receive state vouchers to cover public and private child care fees.

Experts are "cautiously optimistic" about New Mexico’s child poverty rate continuing to decrease based on supplemental poverty measure data released by the U.S. Census Bureau in September. (Photo by ...