Issue Position: Economy

Issue Position

Michelle will work to jumpstart New Mexico's economy and create jobs while building the foundation for long-term economic success.

She will fully utilize our capacity to use a percentage of the Severance Tax Permanent Fund to invest in New Mexico businesses and expand the state's growing film economy, doubling film production in the first two years. Michelle will build a stronger, more versatile workforce by increasing apprenticeship and private-sector partnership programs in our schools and colleges, develop centers of excellence at our universities in agriculture (NMSU), bioscience (UNM), cybersecurity (NM Tech) and sustainable and renewable energy (San Juan Community College), and implement a sector-based economic strategy that focuses on New Mexico's strengths. Michelle knows that too many New Mexicans struggle to make ends meet from day to day and will work to immediately raise the minimum wage, giving more than 100,000 New Mexicans a much-needed raise, and fund home-visiting services that are proven to break cycles of poverty.

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