Patricia Roybal Caballero
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Policy Brief
House Bill 11: New Mexico’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act Spells Disaster for Small Businesses
The Paid Family and Medical Leave Act threatens to impose crushing financial burdens on small businesses and restaurants, risking closures, job losses, and economic instability across New Mexico.
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Policy Brief
Banking on Failure: House Bill 130’s Public Bank Will Deepen New Mexico’s Credit Crisis
A public bank is a forced gamble with taxpayer dollars that ignores market realities, mandates risky lending, and risks compounding the damage caused by the artificial credit crisis created by New Mexico’s interest rate cap.
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Op-Ed
A public bank could crowd out community-based financial institutions
The 2022 passage of House Bill 132, which set a stringent cap of 36% on interest rates for consumer loans, is having its intended and significant repercussions on New Mexico’s financial landscape. This was no accident:…
Originally published inAlbuquerque Journal