A far-left group called New Mexico Voices for Children, which advocates for things such as abortion up-to-birth, weakened election laws, socialized “free” college, and child mutilation via transgender surgery and puberty blockers, is now trying to downplay the state’s abysmal rankings, most recently being listed 50th once again out of all other states in child well-being.
The group’s executive director Amber Wallin’s op-ed recently appeared in the Las Cruces Sun-News, telling New Mexicans the abysmal rankings “shouldn’t get you down.”
“While these improvements show up in the data, they don’t yet show up in the 50-state rankings. The rankings are based on data, but the various factors behind each indicator go beyond policies implemented by states. Childhood outcomes in a state are also intrinsically tied to its geography, history, assets, systemic inequities, and various other factors that contribute to a nuanced picture of child well-being that cannot be accurately represented by any one number or ranking,” she claimed.
Wallin also touted extreme government-growing programs, claiming they are helping, but the data hasn’t produced their results yet.
She wrote, “Our investments in child care assistance, voter-approved expansion of early childhood services, and child-focused tax policy improvements all received national accolades. These, along with the creation of a statewide paid sick leave policy for all workers, ending of predatory lending, and expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act all help ensure that New Mexico’s families have access to the resources we all need to thrive.”
Although she acknowledged, “This is not to say that there’s no room for improvement,” Wallin’s answer to the 50th ranking, which had multiple categories worsen in the latest “The Kids Count” report on child well-being, is more big government, Critical Race Theory in classrooms, more taxpayer money being flung at “free” daycare, and giving salaries to a legislature that has so far produced nothing but worse results for the state.
She concluded, “For example, we must continue our investments in early childhood. We must mandate that our K-12 curriculum reflects and validates our diverse child population. We must ensure that our Legislature has the resources it needs – including salaries and staff – that allow a broader segment of residents to serve in elected office. We must broaden our revenue base to cushion our budget from oil and gas volatility. We must ensure any new revenue comes from the sectors of our society who can afford to take more responsibility for supporting the services and infrastructure our people and businesses all rely upon. And we must ensure a just transition toward a greater reliance on renewable energy sources.”
How can New Mexico score high on child- well-being when so many infants are aborted in this: state?
We’ve always had a problem with the well being of children here even back in 1965 when I moved here. And we’ve always been last or near last in school rankings. Abortion is a huge issue, always has been. We need a complete makeover of our system in this state and first should be can MLG!
MLG is a problem alright, but you have to go after all the long haulers, the selfish, greedy, power/control hungry freaks like Tom Udall and the the rest of the crooks running New Mexico, and install a fresh group of New Mexico loving patriots! Until then the children will never achieve a higher level here in New Mexico….
Agreed!
This ‘editorial, opinion’ piece, apparently authored by Ms. Wallin also appeared in a recent edition of The Alamogordo Daily News. After reading this piece, and having an understanding of the facts related to child welfare in New Mexico, I believe that someone should remind Ms. Wallin that even though you might be able to ‘put lipstick on a pig’, the fact of the matter is that it is still a pig.
She reveals her SOCIALIST AGENDA here: “We must broaden our revenue base to cushion our budget from oil and gas volatility. We must ensure any new revenue comes from the sectors of our society who can afford to take more responsibility for supporting the services and infrastructure our people and businesses all rely upon. And we must ensure a just transition toward a greater reliance on renewable energy sources.”
Not just ‘socialist’, but a fantasy belief that denies oil and gas/energy is necessary for life and business and ‘well being’… that her/their agenda is killing children, and denying them the ability to handle ‘life’ and the reality of existence. These people are so stupid/ignorant/oblivious they should never have any control over our kids.
Nail on the head. Nice to know someone can see and clearly articulate the true mindset of the people who control our States policies.
Why, oh why don’t we, can’t we vote them out?
“Voices for Children”. Hey -how could you possibly be against an organization that supports children, right? That is, just as long as they’re not in the womb. Those you can grind up and vacuum out. Or take the abortion pills that chemically attack and kill fetuses.
I guess those children don’t have a voice…
As long as they can fund raise, continue being the abortion capital of the world, and make excuses for government control, parents and families that can will continue to leave the state. School vouchers would make the public schools notice that they are a huge failure. Now the new regulations will create even worse conditions in education. Interesting that as school enrollment has been falling the union still insists on keeping excessive administration. When I taught, every teacher I ran into wanted to get to the supervising level so that they would not have to deal with children. I wonder how many teachers that teach the woke agenda have kids of their own?
The Harvard/Harris Poll reported, “66% of voters — including a majority of all parties — say they would not want to live in a state that has increasing taxes, restricts legal gun ownership more strictly, allows abortion up to 9 months, allows minors to get gender surgery without parental permission, encourages undocumented immigrants, and allows felons to vote.”
“We must mandate that our K-12 curriculum reflects and validates our diverse child population.” Code for: Let teach our kids that sodomy and transgenderism is ok and that it’s normal. ABOMINATION!