changing the U.S. Small Business Administration funding-formula to states to include a benefit factor for low-income states like NM
grants and federal Juvenile Justice funds to keep youth involved in their home town (for programs such as a youth conservation corps)
funding an individual trained in business development to travel to rural District 3 towns and hold town hall meetings to develop town funding requests, cooperatives, incubators, or development corporations
federal tax incentives for business start-ups in small towns
encouraging job-creating coalitions among the Forest Service, local individuals and environmental groups, including application for contracts under Senator Bingaman’s Community Forest Restoration Act