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By Rob Nikolewski | Capitol Report New Mexico
SANTA FE — New Mexico‘s economy would generate thousands of jobs and billions more in income, if it became a right-to-work state, where employees can decide whether to join or financially support a union.
If such legislation went into effect next year, New Mexico would have 42,300 more people working by 2020, the state’s personal income would be nearly $5 billion higher and wage and salary income would increase by $2.2 billion, according to a study by Eric Fruits, president and chief economist at Economics International Corp., an economics consulting firm, and an adjunct scholar with the Rio Grande Foundation.
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