New Mexico December Job Training Funds Announced
X2nSAT, Inc., is a full-service satellite network operator in Las Cruces. Courtesy/X2nSat
National Water Services in Santa Fe manufactures, installs and services purified water vending systems. Courtesy/NWS
JTIP News:
SANTA FE The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) Board approved funding for eight businesses in support of a total of 87 employees in December, (71 trainees and 17 interns), Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Monday.
Each month the board convenes in order to review applications from businesses all over New Mexico who wish to get funding in order to help train new employees or up-skill current ones. JTIP funding encourages businesses to continue to move to or expand business in the state and continue growing jobs for New Mexicans.
New Mexico Economic Development Department Releases Latest Economic Data For All 33 Counties
EDD NEWS :
SANTA FE The Economic Development Department has published the most recent series of county economic reports with detailed economic and employment data for all of the 33 counties as well as a statewide snapshot, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes said Friday.
The reports with a December 2020 publication date cover the first quarter of the 2021 fiscal year – July, August, and September 2020 – during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
“This community-level data, delivered in a timely and readable format, is proving valuable to small business owners, lawmakers, and local officials as they quantify the impacts of the pandemic on county economic activity,” Cabinet Secretary Keyes said. “These reports are just the beginning of an initiative to support all of our communities, big and small, as we work toward economic recovery.”
SpinLaunch Locates Mass Accelerator at New Mexico s Spaceport America areadevelopment.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from areadevelopment.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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• Dec 15, 2020 SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. - A company that is developing and testing a mass accelerator with the aim of launching satellites into space orbit, using kinetic energy instead of rockets, is expanding at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today. Here is a statement from the NM Economic Development Department:
SpinLaunch signed a lease at Spaceport America in 2019 and has since invested in test facilities and an integration facility. The company is now set to hire an additional 59 highly-paid workers and complete the build of its suborbital centrifugal launch system for its next phase of development. SpinLaunch expects to start test launches in New Mexico in 2021.