New Mexico Human Services denied food assistance to hungry families to meet deadlines

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. This cannot be an isolated case.

last couple weeks ago we read of Welfare workers who falsified child abuse records, which led to the death of a child.

Human Service agencies live and breathe by stats. They need numbers to increase or remain even to justify their annual budget.
Under that system, it becomes tempting to fudge numbers.

Appropriate oversight should have caught this "long time" problem.
sadly, said oversight is not common, in my experience.