Maine’s Economy

Is DHHS SNAP mismanagement putting Maine families at risk of hunger?

In a blistering editorial published in today’s Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, and Central Maine Morning Sentinel, MaineToday Media condemned the Maine Department of Health and Human […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 15, 2015

Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Transportation bonds: A public safety must, an economic development essential

Question 3 on the November 3rd Maine ballot asks the following: “Do you favor an $85,000,000 bond issue for construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of highways and bridges […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted November 2, 2015

Tags Bonds, Economy, Infrastructure

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Matters (October 2015 edition)

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Posted October 30, 2015

Tags Economy

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

USDA reports progress on child hunger, but still a long way to go to eradicate food insecurity for all Mainers and all Americans

Congress is currently deliberating over reauthorization of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which is crucial to protect school kids in Maine where the child food insecurity rate […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 28, 2015

Tags Children, Food Insecurity, Poverty

Taxes and Budget

Allowing working family tax credits to expire will make it more difficult for these families to make ends meet

Congress has the opportunity this fall to prevent key federal working family tax credits from expiring, resulting in cuts for 50 million working Americans, 16 million of […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 22, 2015

Tags EITC, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Maine workers who will lose all or part of benefits if EITC/CTC benefits expire

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 22, 2015

Tags EITC, Taxes

Education, Health Care, Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

An agenda to give American families a much-needed raise

Our colleagues at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) note that “wages for the vast majority of American workers have stagnated or declined since 1979—and wage stagnation’s reach has broadened […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 15, 2015

Tags Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Infrastructure, Jobs, Tax Fairness, Taxes, Wages

Taxes and Budget

MECEP Statement on Gov. LePage's Proposal to Seek a Ballot Initiative to Reduce Maine’s Income Tax to 4 Percent by 2021

Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, September 22, 2015) The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) issued the following statement in response to media reports that Gov. LePage and the Maine Republican Party […]

Posted September 22, 2015

Tags Income Tax, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes