The minimumwage worker-productivity gap has grown wider for half a century (line graph)

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

Jobs and Income

Maine Jobs Numbers Yet to Recover to 2008 Levels (line graph)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 15, 2016

Tags Employment, Jobs

Taxes and Budget

Real Per-capita State Spending Continues to Fall, Even as the Economy Sputters (line graph)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 15, 2016

Tags Economy

Education, Maine’s Economy

Let’s make sure that every Mainer who aspires to succeed can go back to school

With summer beginning to wind down, thousands of Mainers are getting ready to go back to school. This September, Maine’s post-secondary schools—colleges, universities, and community colleges across […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted August 10, 2016

Tags Education, Higher Education

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

Failure to invest in Maine’s future is the real fiscal negligence

We all want a financially sound state government, but Governor LePage seems bent on undermining our public services in the name of fiscal integrity. His most recent […]

Jody Harris

Posted August 8, 2016

Tags Budget, Economy, Taxes

Education, Maine’s Economy

Immigrants, including refugees, are good for Maine

In a visit to Maine on Thursday, Donald Trump suggested that the presence of Somali refugees in the state was a security risk and an economic drag. However, […]

James Myall

Posted August 5, 2016

Tags Economy, Education, Immigration

Jobs and Income

Mainers’ personal income growth third slowest in the nation; are big businesses to blame?

Since the Great Recession, Mainers’ personal incomes have grown at a slower rate than residents of nearly every other state, according to a new Pew Research Center […]

James Myall

Posted August 3, 2016

Tags Economy, Incomes, Jobs, Wages

Education

Total U.S. Postsecondary Adult Education Enrollment (bar chart)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 3, 2016

Tags Education, Higher Education

Jobs and Income

During the Recession and Recovery (2008-015) Maine's small businesses lost more jobs than large companies (bar chart)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 3, 2016

Tags Employment, Jobs

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The minimumwage worker-productivity gap has grown wider for half a century (line graph)

Augusta’s adherence to austerity holds Maine back

Maine Jobs Numbers Yet to Recover to 2008 Levels (line graph)

Real Per-capita State Spending Continues to Fall, Even as the Economy Sputters (line graph)

Let’s make sure that every Mainer who aspires to succeed can go back to school

Failure to invest in Maine’s future is the real fiscal negligence

Immigrants, including refugees, are good for Maine

Mainers’ personal income growth third slowest in the nation; are big businesses to blame?

Total U.S. Postsecondary Adult Education Enrollment (bar chart)

During the Recession and Recovery (2008-015) Maine's small businesses lost more jobs than large companies (bar chart)