Health Care

Maine's Lost Medicaid Funding Update

Maine has now lost MORE THAN $356 MILLION in federal health care funds. This counter illustrates the high stakes in the ongoing debate over the state accepting federal […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted January 20, 2015

Tags Health Care, Medicaid

Maine Jobs Recovery Continues to Trail the Nation and New England

Beyond the good news, bad news stories of businesses expanding or shuttering are broader trends that affirm a critical challenge that too many Maine families are facing: […]

Garrett Martin

Posted December 19, 2014

Tags Economy, Jobs, Unemployment

Jobs and Income

Maine's Jobs Recovery Trails the Nation and New England

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 19, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine's Injured and Disabled Workers: A Humanitarian Challenge and an Economic Opportunity

Workers hurt on the job have no lobby in the State House, so little fanfare accompanied the Bureau of Labor Statistics release on workplace injury this week. […]

Christy Daggett

Posted December 15, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Health Care

Maine Work-related Injuries

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 15, 2014

Tags Economy, Health Care, Job Quality

Jobs and Income

Mainers on Disability

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 15, 2014

Tags Economy, Health Care, Job Quality

Education

“Pay It Forward” Is Not a Solution to Maine’s College Affordability Problem

A good education, including a college degree, is the path to good jobs and economic security for Mainers and their families, especially the working poor. Over […]

Christy Daggett

Posted December 15, 2014

Tags Education, Higher Education, Student Debt

Health Care

In States Refusing Federal Coverage Funds, Rural Hospitals Pay the Price

Fifteen hundred hospital beds have vanished in rural America since 2010. The cause of the disappearing beds is no mystery: rural hospitals are closing – and at […]

Christy Daggett

Posted December 1, 2014

Tags Federal, Health Care

Taxes and Budget

Migration Mythologists Flee Facts

Maine has gained more taxpayers and income than it has lost going back to the early 1990s, according to IRS tax records. In other words, for every […]

Joel Johnson

Posted November 24, 2014

Tags Economy, Income Tax, Taxes

Jobs and Income

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak

Today’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) doesn’t give us much new information. Maine’s unemployment rate is about the same as the national […]

Garrett Martin

Posted November 21, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

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Maine's Lost Medicaid Funding Update

Maine Jobs Recovery Continues to Trail the Nation and New England

Maine's Jobs Recovery Trails the Nation and New England

Maine's Injured and Disabled Workers: A Humanitarian Challenge and an Economic Opportunity

Maine Work-related Injuries

Mainers on Disability

“Pay It Forward” Is Not a Solution to Maine’s College Affordability Problem

In States Refusing Federal Coverage Funds, Rural Hospitals Pay the Price

Migration Mythologists Flee Facts

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak