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haele

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14. New Mexico's problem is that it had been "owned" by the resource extraction businesses...

Reply to duhneece (Reply #9)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 07:16 PM

Oct 26

And had yet to recover from all the wealth going out of state.
The Federal Government jobs in New Mexico (Sandia, White Sands, NASA) are about the only jobs bringing in consistent amounts of money to the state.
That, and the Hatch Chilis, until Climate Change gets to them.

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