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

Education

Maine’s blue collar workers have college debt too — and welcome the relief

MECEP policy analyst James Myall broke down different categories of workers by analyzing the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances and found they all to varying degrees […]

Beacon

Posted September 2, 2022

Tags Economic Security, Education, Federal, Higher Education, Student Debt

Taxes and Budget

Biden signs into law Democrats’ wide-ranging climate change, health care and tax bill

The bill, named the Inflation Reduction Act, was hailed by analysts in Maine, who said the tax and health care provisions would help create a more fair […]

Beacon

Posted August 17, 2022

Tags Budget, Federal, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Report: Millionaires didn’t flee when tax rates increased in certain states

“When social ties are strong, fiscal and financial incentives have a smaller playing field and less influence on individual behavior,” the authors argue, adding that “embeddedness allows […]

Beacon

Posted August 12, 2022

Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy

Podcast: The corporate profiteering behind inflation and what we can do about it

Jin Woo Chung, senior economist for the Groundwork Collaborative and James Myall, policy analyst for the Maine Center for Economic Policy join host Cate Blackford to discuss rising prices, […]

Beacon

Posted July 29, 2022

Tags Inflation

Health Care

LePage wrongly blames Medicaid expansion for Maine’s worker shortage

After Medicaid expansion won at the ballot box in 2017, LePage still refused to file for expansion with the federal government, prompting a lawsuit led by the […]

Beacon

Posted June 16, 2022

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

Opinion: Expanded Good Samaritan law is simple and will save lives

A recent report by the ACLU of Maine finds that out of the 38,893 arrests in 2019, 3,614—or roughly one out of 11— were for drug-related offenses and almost […]

Beacon

Posted June 7, 2022

Tags Economic Security, Health Care, Inequality

Jobs and Income

Legislators sustain Mills’ vetoes of progressive labor and criminal justice reform bills

“Frankly, it’s an indefensible decision,” James Myall of the Maine Center for Economic Policy wrote on Twitter. “Fear of retaliation by employers is real, and by blocking this effort […]

Beacon

Posted May 9, 2022

Tags Economic Security, Job Quality, Paid Sick Days

Taxes and Budget

‘Unconscionable’: Lawmakers criticize budget plan to send checks to higher-income Mainers

Some advocates also praised the budget plan. In an email, Maine Center for Economic Policy president Garrett Martin lauded the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and […]

Beacon

Posted April 15, 2022

Tags Budget

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Medicaid expansion, COVID relief helped Maine reach record levels of health coverage in 2021

Families, advocates demand accountability after string of deaths in Maine prisons and jails

Maine’s blue collar workers have college debt too — and welcome the relief

Biden signs into law Democrats’ wide-ranging climate change, health care and tax bill

Report: Millionaires didn’t flee when tax rates increased in certain states

Podcast: The corporate profiteering behind inflation and what we can do about it

LePage wrongly blames Medicaid expansion for Maine’s worker shortage

Opinion: Expanded Good Samaritan law is simple and will save lives

Legislators sustain Mills’ vetoes of progressive labor and criminal justice reform bills

‘Unconscionable’: Lawmakers criticize budget plan to send checks to higher-income Mainers