Jobs and Income

Effort continues to ensure state minimum wage for ME farmworkers

About one-quarter of Maine farmworkers live in poverty, and they are roughly 4.5 times as likely to live below the poverty line as other workers in the […]

Public News Service

Posted March 27, 2024

Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Wages

Jobs and Income

Wednesday Sit-Down: Minimum wage for Maine farm workers

In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Arthur Phillips, policy analyst from the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to talk about the minimum wage […]

WGME

Posted March 27, 2024

Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Wages, Wednesday Sit Down

Taxes and Budget

Opinion: Slugger wants his money

Special thanks to Maura Pillsbury at the Maine Center of Economic Policy for her research, which contributed greatly to this piece. Click here to read the full op-ed, […]

Beacon

Posted March 24, 2024

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Democracy Forum 3/15/24: Unions and Democracy Take Two

We’ll revisit topics from our show in 2021, talking about the historical and contemporary links between labor organizing and expanding political rights like voting. Is union organizing […]

WERU

Posted March 15, 2024

Tags Unions

Taxes and Budget

‘The rent is too damn high’: Housing advocates rally for rent relief, homeless shelter funding

“Rent relief for families with low income can be an effective, efficient way to stem the rising tides of evictions and homelessness,” said Josie Phillips, state priorities […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted March 13, 2024

Tags Budget, Housing

Taxes and Budget

Updated revenue predictions once again puts Gov. Mills’ proposed savings in spotlight

Josie Phillips, state priorities partnership fellow for the left-leaning policy organization Maine Center for Economic Policy, said she hopes the increase in one-time funds for this biennium […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted March 11, 2024

Tags Budget

Jobs and Income

Maine lawmakers could still raise the minimum wage to $15

James Myall, a policy analyst with the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP), asked members of the AFA and Labor and Housing committees to think of the […]

Beacon

Posted March 6, 2024

Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Wages

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Mills administration wants to roll back law expanding financial support for older Mainers

The Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning research organization, estimates about 45,000 Mainers who would have been eligible to receive thousands of dollars per year would […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 5, 2024

Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicare

Taxes and Budget

Wednesday Sit-Down: Maine's budget surplus

In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Josie Phillips, a policy fellow with the Maine Center for Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to break down the debate […]

WGME

Posted February 29, 2024

Tags Budget, Revenue, Wednesday Sit Down

Jobs and Income

State government workers union files complaint against Mills administration over bargaining dispute

Since the market pay study was not part of the January review, MSEA said there is no evidence for the claim that the state has addressed the pay […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted February 29, 2024

Tags Job Quality, Jobs

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Effort continues to ensure state minimum wage for ME farmworkers

Wednesday Sit-Down: Minimum wage for Maine farm workers

Opinion: Slugger wants his money

Democracy Forum 3/15/24: Unions and Democracy Take Two

‘The rent is too damn high’: Housing advocates rally for rent relief, homeless shelter funding

Updated revenue predictions once again puts Gov. Mills’ proposed savings in spotlight

Maine lawmakers could still raise the minimum wage to $15

Mills administration wants to roll back law expanding financial support for older Mainers

Wednesday Sit-Down: Maine's budget surplus

State government workers union files complaint against Mills administration over bargaining dispute