USDA Rural Development-New Mexico, along with the Farm Service Agency held a Jobs Forum yesterday in Silver City -- a community nestled in the Gila Wilderness of Southwestern New Mexico. Silver City is working hard to address its local economic situation. The recent drop in copper prices caused local mines to lay off more than 600 employees in a community of 10,000. Those layoffs and other economic factors caused the County’s unemployment rate to rise by 10 percent in three years.
