Taxes and Budget ConnectME Revenues, 2010-18 (line graph) Mark Sullivan Posted August 31, 2016 Tags Revenue
Jobs and Income Increasing the minimum wage to $12 will raise the annual pay of 93,000 Maine women by an average of $3,200 This November, Mainers will vote on an initiative that would gradually raise Maine’s minimum wage from $7.50 to $12 an hour by 2020. The effects of the […] Sarah Austin Posted August 19, 2016 Tags Incomes, Minimum Wage, Wages
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Workers in low income families are most likely to get a raise (bar chart) Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Incomes, Minimum Wage, Wages
Jobs and Income Restoring the Value of Work (full report) This November, Maine voters will consider a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage incrementally to $12 an hour by 2020 and gradually increase the subminimum […] Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income Restoring the Value of Work (executive summary) This November, Maine voters will consider a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage incrementally to $12 an hour by 2020 and gradually increase the subminimum […] Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income Working parents make up 1 in 4 workers who will benefit (pie chart) Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income More than half of workers who will receive a raise have education beyond high school, 1 in 6 are college graduates (bar chart) Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income 9 out of 10 workers who will receive a raise are age 20 or older (bar chart) Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income The minimumwage worker-productivity gap has grown wider for half a century (line graph) Mark Sullivan Posted August 17, 2016 Tags Minimum Wage
Health Care, Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Augusta’s adherence to austerity holds Maine back Conservative fiscal policies at the state and national level have been a key cause of the lackluster economic recovery following the Great Recession, according to a new […] James Myall Posted August 15, 2016 Tags Economy, Education, Health Care, Infrastructure, Tax Fairness, Taxes