Taxes and Budget

Governor LePage's proposed tax plan increases taxes for lower 80 percent of families

Graphic from Sarah Austin’s January 13, 2017 blog post, “Upside-down tax plan, missed opportunity, and unnecessary and harmful cuts in the governor’s budget proposal.”

Mark Sullivan

Posted January 13, 2017

Tags Budget, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

MECEP Statement on Governor LePage's Budget Proposal

Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, January 10, 2016) The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) issued the following statement from Executive Director Garrett Martin concerning Governor Paul LePage’s budget […]

Posted January 10, 2017

Tags Budget

Taxes and Budget

MECEP Statement on Gov. LePage's Pending Budget Proposal

Augusta, Maine (Thursday, January 5, 2017) The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) issued the following statement from Executive Director Garrett Martin concerning the scheduled release of […]

Posted January 5, 2017

Tags Budget

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

Mainers vote for MECEP-backed initiatives to raise the minimum wage, rollback tax breaks for the wealthy to fund education

On November 8th, Maine voters approved two referendum questions the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) strongly supported and for which we provided critical research and analytical […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted November 15, 2016

Tags Economy, Education, Health Care, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Education

Mainers of All Ages Are Out-Educated by Our Neighbors, Fellow Americans

Mark Sullivan

Posted November 1, 2016

Tags Education

Education, Taxes and Budget

Passage of Question 2 Would Reverse Years of State Education Cuts and Austerity Spending Levels

Mark Sullivan

Posted November 1, 2016

Tags Education, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Education, Taxes and Budget

Report Verifies Downward Trend in Maine’s Commitment to School Funding, Reinforces Case for Question 2

Maine general fund support for k-12 education remains more than three percent below pre-recession levels; referendum would raise over $150 million annually dedicated to schools Augusta, Maine […]

Posted October 20, 2016

Tags Budget, Education

Maine’s Economy

12 Maine Organizations Support Strong Payday Lending Rules

We, the undersigned consumer, labor, business, senior, economic justice, and community organizations from Maine, urge you to protect Maine’s low-income families, especially women, senior citizens, minority families, […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 18, 2016

Tags Consumer Protection

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Matters, September 2016

For a PDF version of the July 2016 edition of MECEP Matters, click here. To sign up to subscribe to receive future editions of MECEP Matters automatically […]

Posted September 30, 2016

Tags Economy

Maine’s Economy

SNAP Works for America’s Children (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) delivers more nutrition assistance to low-income children than any other federal program, making it the nation’s largest child nutrition program. In […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 29, 2016

Tags Children, SNAP

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Governor LePage's proposed tax plan increases taxes for lower 80 percent of families

MECEP Statement on Governor LePage's Budget Proposal

MECEP Statement on Gov. LePage's Pending Budget Proposal

Mainers vote for MECEP-backed initiatives to raise the minimum wage, rollback tax breaks for the wealthy to fund education

Mainers of All Ages Are Out-Educated by Our Neighbors, Fellow Americans

Passage of Question 2 Would Reverse Years of State Education Cuts and Austerity Spending Levels

Report Verifies Downward Trend in Maine’s Commitment to School Funding, Reinforces Case for Question 2

12 Maine Organizations Support Strong Payday Lending Rules

MECEP Matters, September 2016

SNAP Works for America’s Children (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)