Education New high school equivalency test providing opportunity for hundreds of Mainers Over 400 Mainers who would have been passed over by the traditional GED received their high school diplomas in 2014. That’s 400 more Mainers who now have […] Jody Harris Posted August 6, 2015 Tags Education
Education Maine adult education students earning a high school equivalency (chart) Mark Sullivan Posted August 6, 2015 Tags Education
Health Care Medicare: 50 years old and, since health care reform, more fiscally fit You know there’s an election coming when you start hearing politicians claiming that Medicare is on the verge of bankruptcy. And with the first presidential debate scheduled […] Mark Sullivan Posted August 4, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicare
Health Care Affordable Care Act has significantly improved Medicare's finances Mark Sullivan Posted August 4, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care
Health Care Happy birthday to Medicaid and to the thousands of children whose lives it has saved I will never forget one day when was in my late 20s, expecting my first baby. I happened to be alone with my grandmother in her tiny, […] Christy Daggett Posted August 3, 2015 Tags Children, Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined dramatically since Congress created Medicaid 50 years ago Mark Sullivan Posted August 3, 2015 Tags Children, Medicaid
Health Care Medicare at 50 Harry Truman was president when I was born. I was 13 years old on July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri to sign […] Mark Sullivan Posted July 30, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicare
Maine’s Economy Testimony before the National Commission on Hunger “Maine is the most food insecure state in New England. Five percent of seniors and nearly one in four children are food insecure in Maine. In 2013, […] Christy Daggett Posted July 30, 2015 Tags Food Insecurity
Health Care The day health care in America changed forever Tomorrow, July 30, is a date of historic firsts. In 1619, the House of Burgesses, America’s first elected governing assembly met for the first time in Virginia, […] Mark Sullivan Posted July 29, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare