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 […] Beacon Posted October 3, 2022 Tags Coronavirus, Local
Health Care Medicaid expansion, COVID relief helped Maine reach record levels of health coverage in 2021 Census data released last week shows that just under 78,000 Mainers (about 5.7%) lacked health insurance in 2021. That’s the lowest share of uninsured people dating back to 1988, […] Beacon Posted September 20, 2022 Tags Coronavirus, Health Care, Medicaid
Taxes and Budget Families, advocates demand accountability after string of deaths in Maine prisons and jails Advocates at the rally argued that the rise in prison and jail deaths is related to decades of policy decisions in Maine that have resulted in a […] Beacon Posted September 12, 2022 Tags Budget, Health Care, Inequality