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 […]

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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

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

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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

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