Fact checking MLG’s State of the State on poverty claims & more

The following is directly from Wednesday’s Santa Fe New Mexican. It is a exceedingly gentle fact check of some of MLG’s biggest whoppers during her State of the State address. We did our own analysis of her speech here.

As the fact check below notes, MLG AGAIN made bold claims about poverty reduction in New Mexico. What the New Mexican fails to clarify is that there simply was NO reduction from 50th to 17th in New Mexico’s child poverty rate. We have written on this extensively and it is simply pathetic that the Gov. continues to make this claim.

And, of course the Gov. wants people to believe that CYFD’s myriad failures are a funding issue when of course New Mexico has been flooded with resources.

Finally, as Joe Biden so regularly did, MLG likes to claim every job destroyed by COVID and recovered since then was her doing when in reality New Mexico’s job growth has been modest.