Jobs and Income

Jobs Recovery Nationally Showing Promise, But Maine Still Lags Far Behind

Today’s national jobs report highlights an important milestone. As a nation, we have recovered 101 percent of jobs lost during the recession. Clearly we are headed in […]

Garrett Martin

Posted June 6, 2014

Tags Economy, Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine’s Jobs Recovery is Mostly in Portland

4 out of every 5 jobs that Maine employers have added in the last five years have been in the greater Portland area, according to data released […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 29, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . .

The Urban Institute (UI) recently released a new analysis of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate (Why Not Just Eliminate the Employer Mandate?) and what the […]

Guest Blogger

Posted May 13, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Much of New Hampshire is a Bedroom of Massachusetts

Yesterday’s report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities briefly touches on another fact about New Hampshire that anti-tax activists never mention: much of the state […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 9, 2014

Tags Incomes, Jobs, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

Maine’s official unemployment rate continues to fall along with the nation as a whole, but “underemployment” is as big a problem as ever, according to data released […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 7, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Health Care, Jobs and Income

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

A new study finds that Romneycare – the Massachusetts health insurance program that was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act – has prevented 230 […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 6, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Governor LePage deals another blow to Maine farmers and fishermen

Just as Governor LePage’s policies have taken health insurance away from Maine’s small farmers and fishermen, now he wants to take local business away from them too. […]

Jody Harris

Posted April 24, 2014

Tags Food Insecurity, Jobs

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds

Maine has a higher-than-average number of small businesses and one in seven Mainers is self-employed. More than half of Mainers are self-employed as farmers, loggers, fishermen, and […]

Christy Daggett

Posted April 22, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Education, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

The LePage Case against Medicaid Expansion: A House of Cards Built on Fallacies, Contradictions, and Ideology

“We cannot go grab federal money without understanding just how much Maine taxpayers will wind up paying. Furthermore, it is incredibly irresponsible to put taxpayers on the […]

Garrett Martin

Posted April 18, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Health Care, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Boston Fed President Agrees: Many Mainers Still Struggling in Weak Labor Market

Like MECEP, the Boston Federal Reserve Bank is looking deeper into Maine’s labor market statistics finding that employment prospects for Mainers are still nowhere near as good […]

Joel Johnson

Posted April 16, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

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Jobs Recovery Nationally Showing Promise, But Maine Still Lags Far Behind

Maine’s Jobs Recovery is Mostly in Portland

Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . .

Much of New Hampshire is a Bedroom of Massachusetts

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

Governor LePage deals another blow to Maine farmers and fishermen

Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds

The LePage Case against Medicaid Expansion: A House of Cards Built on Fallacies, Contradictions, and Ideology

Boston Fed President Agrees: Many Mainers Still Struggling in Weak Labor Market