Jobs and Income

Bill Would Make More Maine Workers Eligible For Overtime Pay

James Myall, an analyst for Maine Center for Economic Policy, a liberal advocacy group, said right now employers can easily classify salaried workers as administrative or professional […]

Maine Public

Posted March 11, 2019

Tags Job Quality, Overtime

Taxes and Budget

Has Janet Mills Paralyzed Progressive Reform?

To many Democrats, most disturbing about Mills’ no-new-taxes pledge is that it leaves in place LePage’s income-tax cuts, which lowered the top rate on the rich from […]

The Free Press

Posted March 7, 2019

Tags Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Experts say repealing estate tax cut for millionaires key to fixing Maine’s wealth gap

A legislative effort to undo massive estate tax cuts passed by former Gov. Paul LePage was praised by tax fairness advocates and policy experts at a public […]

Beacon

Posted March 7, 2019

Tags Estate Tax, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Restaurant licenses, sales, jobs, wages and hours all up after Maine’s tipped wage hike

As policy analyst James Myall with the Maine Center for Economic Policy points out, if increasing servers’ wages would cause restaurants and bars to close, as Republican […]

Beacon

Posted March 6, 2019

Tags Jobs, Minimum Wage, Wages

Jobs and Income

Mainers testify that state’s lack of paid sick days is ‘arcane and insane’

In a packed public hearing before the state legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee Monday, Maine workers, employers and advocates argued in favor of a proposal for a […]

Beacon

Posted February 25, 2019

Tags Job Quality, Paid Sick Days

Bills considered to protect, restrict Maine voters’ referendum rights

Sarah Austin, a policy analyst with the Maine Center for Economic Policy, said Maine’s ballot process allows for a level of direct democracy not found in some […]

Beacon

Posted February 21, 2019

Tags Inequality

Education, Taxes and Budget

Bill would extend tax-free options to companies helping workers with student loans

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, have signed on as cosponsors of bipartisan legislation that supports employers assisting employees in paying off their student […]

MaineBiz

Posted February 19, 2019

Tags Higher Education, Student Debt, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

The View From Here: Maine Republicans keep winning on taxes

The Maine Center for Economic Policy, the liberal think tank, had its own budget proposal, which is quite modest in its goals. It would meet the state’s […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted February 17, 2019

Tags Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Mills Budget Provides More School Funding, Fails to Fully Fund Revenue Sharing & Keeps LePage’s Tax Cuts

The liberal-leaning Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) praised Mills for her support for Medicaid expansion, but criticized the proposal for failing to reverse LePage’s income tax […]

The Free Press

Posted February 14, 2019

Tags Budget, Education, Revenue, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Legislature revisits bill that would require employers to provide sick leave

“The lack of paid sick days decreases workers’ financial security and hurts our economy,” Garrett Martin, executive director of Maine Center for Economic Policy, said in a […]

MaineBiz

Posted February 13, 2019

Tags Job Quality, Paid Sick Days

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Bill Would Make More Maine Workers Eligible For Overtime Pay

Has Janet Mills Paralyzed Progressive Reform?

Experts say repealing estate tax cut for millionaires key to fixing Maine’s wealth gap

Restaurant licenses, sales, jobs, wages and hours all up after Maine’s tipped wage hike

Mainers testify that state’s lack of paid sick days is ‘arcane and insane’

Bills considered to protect, restrict Maine voters’ referendum rights

Bill would extend tax-free options to companies helping workers with student loans

The View From Here: Maine Republicans keep winning on taxes

Mills Budget Provides More School Funding, Fails to Fully Fund Revenue Sharing & Keeps LePage’s Tax Cuts

Legislature revisits bill that would require employers to provide sick leave