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New Mexico

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Quixote1818

(30,443 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 05:26 PM Jan 2015

Rio Grand Found. says NM not being "Right to Work" is why our economy sucks. Fales to mention [View all]

that we have very low union membership even compared to some right to work states like Nevada.

http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2015/01/05/nm-on-list-of-top-10-outbound-states-again/




Here is my comment which I doubt they will post:

Even though NM isn’t a right to work state it still has one of the lowest union memberships of the 50 states at only 7%. In fact Nevada which is a right to work state has double the union membership of NM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_affiliation_by_U.S._state

He also cherry picks by failing to mention that Utah, Mississippi, Michigan and Virginia are also outbound and right to work.

Not to mention, even though several states listed as "outbound" have a lot of people moving out their economies are growing quite fast.

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