Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Despite the historic opportunity offered by the federal funds available to expand Medicaid to cover Maine’s uninsured, millions of dollars earmarked for our state have been lost […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 4, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Maine’s Jobs Recovery is Mostly in Portland

4 out of every 5 jobs that Maine employers have added in the last five years have been in the greater Portland area, according to data released […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 29, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Education

Higher Education Pays Dividends to Taxpayers, Too

Mainers with college degrees earn more over their lifetime than Mainers without them, but all Maine taxpayers share in the benefits as well, according to new estimates […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 16, 2014

Tags Education, Higher Education

Health Care

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets

First-quarter financial results are in, and the CEOs of some of America’s publicly-traded hospitals systems are finding Medicaid expansion is good for business. And they are reporting […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 14, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . .

The Urban Institute (UI) recently released a new analysis of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate (Why Not Just Eliminate the Employer Mandate?) and what the […]

Guest Blogger

Posted May 13, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Much of New Hampshire is a Bedroom of Massachusetts

Yesterday’s report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities briefly touches on another fact about New Hampshire that anti-tax activists never mention: much of the state […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 9, 2014

Tags Incomes, Jobs, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Taxes Have Little Effect on People’s Decisions about What State to Live In

A lengthy and exhaustive new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities confirms what reality-based analysts have known for a long time: state taxes do […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 8, 2014

Tags Taxes

Jobs and Income

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

Maine’s official unemployment rate continues to fall along with the nation as a whole, but “underemployment” is as big a problem as ever, according to data released […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 7, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Health Care, Jobs and Income

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

A new study finds that Romneycare – the Massachusetts health insurance program that was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act – has prevented 230 […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 6, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Governor LePage deals another blow to Maine farmers and fishermen

Just as Governor LePage’s policies have taken health insurance away from Maine’s small farmers and fishermen, now he wants to take local business away from them too. […]

Jody Harris

Posted April 24, 2014

Tags Food Insecurity, Jobs

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Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Maine’s Jobs Recovery is Mostly in Portland

Higher Education Pays Dividends to Taxpayers, Too

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets

Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . .

Much of New Hampshire is a Bedroom of Massachusetts

Taxes Have Little Effect on People’s Decisions about What State to Live In

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

Governor LePage deals another blow to Maine farmers and fishermen