Maine K-12 Education Funding Remains Well Below Pre-Recession Levels

Testimony: Pay If Forward Raises Concerns for Low-income and Working Adult Students

MECEP is particularly concerned with the impact of college affordability proposals on low-income and working adult students. Pay It Forward raises a number of concerns. MECEP commends the […]

Maine’s Lack of Population and Job Growth Tamps Down Growth in Wages and Salaries

Today’s data release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows Maine’s personal income growth kept pace with the nation and the region in the second quarter of 2014, but […]

Maine Has Less Wage and Salary Income, More Transfer Payments than Nation as a Whole

Maine's Growth in Wage and Salary Income Trails the Nation

ACA cost saving measures help turn McAllen, Texas from national basket case to bellwether in five years

Health reform hasn’t only reduced the rate of uninsured to levels not seen since the 1990s; it also is reducing healthcare costs, which ultimately will make healthcare […]

Health Reform is Making History – But Maine is Slipping Behind

History is happening: the percent of Americans without health coverage is the lowest it’s been since the 1990s. Medicare costs are declining – not just slowing – […]

Maine’s Economic Recovery: Limited job growth, persistent underemployment, and declining incomes

For months, we’ve written about Maine’s anemic economic recovery relative to the rest of the country. Today’s August jobs report does little to change that story. Maine […]

Child poverty fell in 2013, but median household income continues to go nowhere

Child poverty in Maine fell back to pre-recession levels in 2013, but income for the median household and the overall poverty rate saw no improvement, according to […]

Wrong Way for Maine on Health Insurance

Maine is one of only two states in the country to experience an increase in the percentage of their people who do not have health insurance. The number […]