Taxes and Budget

Bills to ensure wealthy and corporations pay fair share of taxes will be a focus this session

Still, some bills that simply made the tax code more balanced were successful last year, including a measure to stop large chain stores from exploiting a “dark store” tax […]

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Posted January 13, 2023

Tags Budget, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Mills pitches $10.3B budget plan as progressives call for stronger social safety net

The budget will now be taken up by the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, which is under new leadership this year, and will also be negotiated by […]

Beacon

Posted January 11, 2023

Tags Budget

Jobs and Income

Podcast: Will robots take Maine’s jobs and other insights from the author of the State of Working Maine

James Myall of the Maine Center for Economic Policy joins Ben Chin to discuss the 2023 State of Working Maine report and the economic environment of the […]

Beacon

Posted January 8, 2023

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Taxes and Budget

Parents urge Golden, delegation to make expanded Child Tax Credit permanent

Arthur Phillips, a policy analyst at Maine Center for Economic Policy, said on Monday that Maine’s full delegation should support making the expanded CTC permanent because of […]

Beacon

Posted December 6, 2022

Tags Child Tax Credit, Children, Federal

Taxes and Budget

Mainers urge Congress to expand Child Tax Credit during lame duck session

“Rising costs have coincided with rising profits for corporations, while families with low incomes struggle to keep up,” said Garrett Martin of the Maine Center for Economic […]

Beacon

Posted November 18, 2022

Tags Child Tax Credit, Children, Economic Security, Food Insecurity

Taxes and Budget

LePage refuses to say whether he’ll continue to fully fund public education

Property taxes are incredibly regressive, meaning they fall more heavily on the poor than on the rich. State funding, on the other hand, comes from a more […]

Beacon

Posted October 28, 2022

Tags Property Tax, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

Podcast: There’s no crying in Capitalism!

This week, the Cate, Esther and Ben dig into election-eve campaign spending and what it may or may not mean, highlight the new “State of Working Maine […]

Beacon

Posted October 21, 2022

Tags Economic Security, Economy, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

To protect fragile economy, report argues Maine must do more for workers

A recent report found that although Maine bounced back quickly from the pandemic-induced downturn, that recovery has masked “continued underlying weaknesses in the economy.” Challenges identified in […]

Beacon

Posted October 19, 2022

Tags Economic Security, Job Quality, Jobs, Unions, Wages

Jobs and Income

Report: Portland anti-minimum wage campaign fueled by national corporate interests

Research from the Maine Center for Economic Policy shows that workers do indeed stand to benefit if Question D passes. In July, MECEP estimated that the initiative would raise […]

Beacon

Posted October 13, 2022

Tags Minimum Wage

Taxes and Budget

Maine counties are spending COVID relief funds on more police and jails

Maura Pillsbury, an analyst for the Maine Center for Economic Policy specializing in tax expenditures and local issues, has tracked ARPA funds by monitoring budget meetings at […]

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Posted October 3, 2022

Tags Coronavirus, Local

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Bills to ensure wealthy and corporations pay fair share of taxes will be a focus this session

Mills pitches $10.3B budget plan as progressives call for stronger social safety net

Podcast: Will robots take Maine’s jobs and other insights from the author of the State of Working Maine

Parents urge Golden, delegation to make expanded Child Tax Credit permanent

Mainers urge Congress to expand Child Tax Credit during lame duck session

LePage refuses to say whether he’ll continue to fully fund public education

Podcast: There’s no crying in Capitalism!

To protect fragile economy, report argues Maine must do more for workers

Report: Portland anti-minimum wage campaign fueled by national corporate interests

Maine counties are spending COVID relief funds on more police and jails