775 Dueling Budgets Await Legislators, Did Biden Rule Enable Day Care Fraud?, Literacy Center and more

The Legislature put out their own budget. It is better than MLG's (including not funding universal free childcare): https://errorsofenchantment.com/a-few-positives-relative-to-mlgs-in-the-lfc-budget/

More detail on plans for free child care scandal in MN (Biden rule change allowed reimbursement based on "enrollment" as opposed to actual attendance): https://errorsofenchantment.com/mlgs-plans-for-free-childcare-plus-a-biden-era-rule-allowed-child-care-centers-to-be-paid-on-enrollment-not-attendance/

MLG and the Legislature are spending $30 million on a "literacy center" in ABQ: https://errorsofenchantment.com/mlg-when-in-doubt-spend-more-money/

New Mexico was named the worst state in the nation to raise a family by Wallethub: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-raise-a-family/31065

Rail Runner ridership remains at its depressed "new normal" level while emitting more CO2 than cars being driven to Santa Fe: https://errorsofenchantment.com/the-new-normal-railrunner-ridership-has-leveled-off-at-a-new-lower-level-than-before-covid/

Sen. Jeff Steinborn has introduced an anti-data center bill.