The Rio Grande Foundation is an economic policy advocacy group in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and affiliated with the U.S. nationwide State Policy Network.
The Foundation's stated mission is "to increase liberty and prosperity for all of New Mexico's citizens" by "informing New Mexicans of the importance of individual freedom, limited government, and economic opportunity".
The Foundation maintains a website, a blog, and regularly contributes opinion pieces to local newspapers, as well as publishes studies related to state economic policy. The Foundation's current President, Paul Gessing, has been featured on local talk shows and radio programs to discuss economic issues.
Read more about Rio Grande Foundation: Policy Goals, Stossel Luncheon
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“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
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“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)