Taxes and Budget

Podcast: Better targeting Maine’s one-time checks could fund health care and housing

James Myall of the Maine Center for Economic Policy joins the podcast to discuss the current debate in the State House over how much should be sent […]

Beacon

Posted April 7, 2022

Tags Budget

Editorial: Crime and treatment

The ACLU and Maine Center for Economic Policy make the case for decriminalizing the use and possession of drugs and investing instead in things like treatment, recovery […]

Mount Desert Islander

Posted April 7, 2022

Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Inequality

Taxes and Budget

Republican lawmakers want to give millionaires $850

Republican legislators are proposing to remove income caps from the governor’s planned $850 COVID Pandemic Relief Payments. This would make the richest 20 percent of Maine households, […]

Sarah Austin

Posted April 7, 2022

Tags Budget, Coronavirus, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Despite spending more than $100 million a year, Maine’s drug crisis is getting worse

According to the report by MECEP and the ACLU of Maine, state and local governments spend $111 million a year – more than $8,000, on average, per drug arrest […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted April 4, 2022

Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Inequality

Health Care

Lawmakers vote to give more Maine children access to affordable healthcare

At the hearing, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, Maine Children’s Alliance, United Way of Greater Portland and the Maine Center for Economic Policy came out […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 31, 2022

Tags Budget, Children, Health Care

Taxes and Budget

Poll: Mainers prefer investments in housing, infrastructure over one-time checks

Policy analysts at the Maine Center for Economic Policy have argued that if the one-time checks were more narrowly targeted, and the amount deposited in the Rainy […]

Beacon

Posted March 30, 2022

Tags Budget, Revenue

Taxes and Budget

Biden proposes billionaire tax to pay for increased spending on military, public health

Megan Michaud, vice president of programs and policy with the Maine Center for Economic Policy, said by closing offshore tax loopholes and taxing the unrealized capital gains on […]

Beacon

Posted March 29, 2022

Tags Budget, Federal, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Economic relief should target people who need it most

Governor Janet Mills has proposed using the majority of Maine’s historic $1.2 billion budget surplus to pay for economic relief checks to 800,000 Mainers. While the rising […]

James Myall

Posted March 29, 2022

Tags Budget, Children, Economic Security, Food Insecurity, Housing, Inequality

Taxes and Budget

How to create more bang for Maine’s budget bucks

This year’s historic budget surplus offers a rare opportunity to invest in Mainers in ways that will have a lasting and tangible impact. While many of the […]

MECEP

Posted March 23, 2022

Tags Budget, Children, Economy, Education, Health Care, Higher Education, Immigration, Inequality, Racial Equity

Taxes and Budget

Our View: The question at the heart of Maine’s overdose epidemic

According to a new report from the Maine chapter of the ACLU and the Maine Center for Economic Policy, state and local governments here spend $111 million on arresting […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 23, 2022

Tags Budget, Health Care, Revenue, Taxes

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Podcast: Better targeting Maine’s one-time checks could fund health care and housing

Editorial: Crime and treatment

Republican lawmakers want to give millionaires $850

Despite spending more than $100 million a year, Maine’s drug crisis is getting worse

Lawmakers vote to give more Maine children access to affordable healthcare

Poll: Mainers prefer investments in housing, infrastructure over one-time checks

Biden proposes billionaire tax to pay for increased spending on military, public health

Economic relief should target people who need it most

How to create more bang for Maine’s budget bucks

Our View: The question at the heart of Maine’s overdose epidemic