Taxes and Budget

PRESS RELEASE: Trump Tax Plan Would Give Richest Maine Taxpayers an Average $53,000 Tax Cut and Trigger Deep Cuts to Federal Dollars for Maine

For Immediate Release: July 20, 2017 Contact: Sarah Austin Phone: (207) 620-1104 Email: saustin@mecep.org Trump Tax Plan Would Give Richest Maine Taxpayers an Average $53,000 Tax Cut and Trigger […]

Posted July 20, 2017

Tags Federal, Tax Fairness, Taxes, TCJA

Health Care

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

U.S. House Budget Committee is scheduled to review a budget resolution that makes hard-working families pay more and worsens budget deficits with massive tax cuts for the […]

Posted July 19, 2017

Tags Federal, Health Care, Higher Education, Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

MECEP Report: House and Senate Proposals to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Have Far-Reaching Consequences for Maine Women and Families

Augusta, Maine (Friday, July 7, 2017—The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) today released a new report, Republican House and Senate Health Care Plans Jeopardize Access to […]

Posted July 7, 2017

Tags Health Care

Health Care

New Report: House and Senate Bills Would Be as Damaging as a Recession, Destroy 10,000 Jobs, Cost 111,000 Mainers Their Health Insurance

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Posted June 26, 2017

Tags Health Care

Taxes and Budget

House Republicans release new budget proposal: tax cuts for the rich, underfunded schools, and harmful cuts to Mainers and their communities

Augusta (June 23, 2017) — Last night House Republicans presented a budget proposal to the Committee of Conference twenty days after initial proposals passed out of the […]

Posted June 23, 2017

Tags Federal, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Education, Taxes and Budget

Senate Republican vote defies will of voters, compromises current and future school funding to give tax cuts to wealthy

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Posted June 13, 2017

Tags Education, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Trump budget would shift huge SNAP costs to Maine and put more Mainers at risk of going hungry

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Posted June 13, 2017

Tags Budget, Federal, SNAP

Education, Taxes and Budget

House Democratic proposal gives major tax cut to the rich, taxes low- and middle-income Mainers instead

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Posted June 7, 2017

Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Jobs and Income

A Year after Draft Payday Protections Issued, Congress Moves to Protect Loan Sharks

Meanwhile, payday lenders drain a half million dollars in fees from Maine’s economy Augusta, Maine (June 2, 2017) Today marks the one-year anniversary of the federal Consumer […]

Posted June 2, 2017

Tags Consumer Protection, Federal

Health Care

MECEP Statement on the House Passage of the American Health Care Act

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Posted May 4, 2017

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

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PRESS RELEASE: Trump Tax Plan Would Give Richest Maine Taxpayers an Average $53,000 Tax Cut and Trigger Deep Cuts to Federal Dollars for Maine

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

MECEP Report: House and Senate Proposals to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Have Far-Reaching Consequences for Maine Women and Families

New Report: House and Senate Bills Would Be as Damaging as a Recession, Destroy 10,000 Jobs, Cost 111,000 Mainers Their Health Insurance

House Republicans release new budget proposal: tax cuts for the rich, underfunded schools, and harmful cuts to Mainers and their communities

Senate Republican vote defies will of voters, compromises current and future school funding to give tax cuts to wealthy

Trump budget would shift huge SNAP costs to Maine and put more Mainers at risk of going hungry

House Democratic proposal gives major tax cut to the rich, taxes low- and middle-income Mainers instead

A Year after Draft Payday Protections Issued, Congress Moves to Protect Loan Sharks

MECEP Statement on the House Passage of the American Health Care Act