Tag: New Mexico
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Choosing Courage Over Comfort
During her recent state of the state speech, Governor Susanna Martinez gave a charge to New Mexico and it’s legislative body, “I ask that, in every decision, we choose courage over comfort, change over stagnation, reform over the status quo,” Martinez urged New Mexico lawmakers to approve measures aimed at creating jobs and improving the…
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What You Don’t Know About the Minimum Wage
You may have noticed that it is not just President Obama who desires to raise the minimum wage. In New Mexico, they are working on a constitutional amendment to make the raise automatic. Progressive governors and mayors across the nation are moving to raise the wage as well, but why? The facts about the minimum…
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Education, Immorality and the Single Mom
Education is front and center for New Mexico once again. One part of this complex problem is the single parent household that makes up more than 36% of households in New Mexico. Yet we continue to encourage and reward this choice. We even hold up the single mother as virtuous and honorable. Both the choice…