Jobs and Income

Legislature sustains Mills’ veto of farmworker minimum wage bill

Several of the bill’s supporters, including the Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, highlighted that this was Mills’ second veto of legislation […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted July 25, 2023

Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Racial Equity

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Bill to extend MaineCare coverage to noncitizens wins support in Maine House

Groups supporting the proposal include Maine Equal Justice, Maine Center for Economic Policy, Presente! Maine, Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the ACLU of Maine, American Cancer Society […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted June 26, 2023

Tags Health Care, Immigration, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

Bills passed by Maine lawmakers are piling up on ‘the table’ – and many will die there

“It can be very sobering, and it can risk momentum for causes that you spend a lot of time building,” said Leuthy, who is now a lobbyist […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted June 19, 2023

Tags Budget, Child Care, Child Tax Credit, Direct Care Work, Housing, Paid Family and Medical Leave

Taxes and Budget

Commentary: Business incentive tax giveaway not the program Maine needs

It’s no secret that Maine is facing a critical workforce shortage. A 2022 survey of Maine businesses conducted by the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and the […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted June 18, 2023

Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Maine nurses split over whether state mandate of staff ratios would help

“Part of that is that health care jobs were extremely stressful – and dangerous – over the past two years, which probably led people to find other […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted June 18, 2023

Tags Health Care, Job Quality, Jobs

Taxes and Budget

Our View: Lawmakers should use child tax credit to boost next generation of Mainers

“The child tax credit has such a transformational impact on children’s lives that every dollar spent on the credit has a ten dollar return on investment to […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted May 26, 2023

Tags Child Tax Credit, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Impacts of federal debt default could spread through Maine’s workforce, economy

The Maine Center for Economic Policy, a progressive advocacy group, estimates that more than 350,000 Maine residents receive Social Security, 105,000 receive federal veterans’ benefits and 88,000 […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted May 24, 2023

Tags Debt Ceiling, Federal

Jobs and Income

Bill can be part of solution to attracting, retaining Maine direct care workers

Not surprisingly, we’re now hearing that traditionally employed people, mostly women, are leaving the workforce to take care of older relatives. According to a report just released […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted May 15, 2023

Tags Direct Care Work, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine paid family leave effort gets mixed business reaction

James Myall, economic policy analyst for the Maine Center for Economic Policy, said paid family leave would be a boon to the economy because there are many […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted February 24, 2023

Tags Job Quality, Paid Sick Days

Jobs and Income

Maine, Portland minimum wages jump on Jan. 1

It is unclear how many workers this will affect – many businesses have already raised hourly wages for many positions to try to compete in a labor […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted January 2, 2023

Tags Minimum Wage, Wages

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Legislature sustains Mills’ veto of farmworker minimum wage bill

Bill to extend MaineCare coverage to noncitizens wins support in Maine House

Bills passed by Maine lawmakers are piling up on ‘the table’ – and many will die there

Commentary: Business incentive tax giveaway not the program Maine needs

Maine nurses split over whether state mandate of staff ratios would help

Our View: Lawmakers should use child tax credit to boost next generation of Mainers

Impacts of federal debt default could spread through Maine’s workforce, economy

Bill can be part of solution to attracting, retaining Maine direct care workers

Maine paid family leave effort gets mixed business reaction

Maine, Portland minimum wages jump on Jan. 1