Navajo Nation Gains 652 Jobs; Navajo Agricultural Products Industries to Go Organic

WINDOW ROCK – If you want to know what drives Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye, it can be summed up in one word: jobs.

He and his vice president, Jonathan Nez, spent much of 2016 planning and holding economic summits and setting the stage for the creation of jobs on the reservation.

He said in a year-end interview held Wednesday that his efforts so far have created 652 actual positions in all fields.

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