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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: State of the New Mexico Workforce, Mental Health Hotline and Afghan Refugees Update
Description: Federal unemployment benefits have expired in New Mexico. What other benefits are still out there for people who are struggling economically during the pandemic? What's going to happen to renters? Gene talks to UNM Law Professor Serge Martinez, and Teague Gonzalez and Felipe Guevara of the NM Center on Law and Poverty.
Correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks with U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh about how the workforce is recovering after all the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The two also discuss ongoing efforts to help out of work employees, and how the federal government is working...