Evidence-based budgeting in New Mexico: Part 2 interview with Charles Sallee, Deputy Director, Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico – Episode #190

New Mexico state government is a leader in the use of evidence, lead by its Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) that has been a catalyst for evidence-based budgeting (pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-b…), including through its participation in the Pew MacArthur Results First Initiative. In this part 2 of our interview with Charles Sallee, the Deputy Director of the Legislative Finance Committee, we get an update on progress. That includes:

• Sharing an example of how credible research influenced policymaking on a key issue in New Mexico, pre-school education.

• How an important piece of good-government legislation — the New Mexico Evidence and Research-Based Funding Requests Act of 2019 — has spurred the development of program inventories in high-priority policy areas that support evidence-based budgeting.

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