Taxes and Budget

New budget projections highlight the need to get serious about raising revenue

Update: Read MECEP’s November 25, 2024 statement on the revised revenue forecast. At a glance: Projected budget shortfalls are nothing new Ultimately lawmakers must work with the […]

James Myall

Posted October 7, 2024

Tags Budget, Direct Care Work, Education, Health Care, K-12 Education, Medicaid, Revenue

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

After strong start, organizers hope to expand Maine’s guaranteed income pilot program

Researchers at Columbia University found that the programs can help significantly reduce poverty, even at low guaranteed income rates of $250 per month. It can also help meet basic […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted September 16, 2024

Tags Budget, Guaranteed Income, Poverty

Taxes and Budget

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expiration is a chance for Tax Fairness to flourish

At a glance: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 expires in 2025, offering Congress a chance to reshape tax policy and reverse regressive measures […]

Maura Pillsbury

Posted September 13, 2024

Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes, Trump Tax Cuts

Taxes and Budget

Monopoly League Baseball

As DBH has grown it’s been boosted, in part, by public taxpayers. In the three years DBH has been in operation, DBH-owned teams have extracted nearly $300 […]

The Lever

Posted September 12, 2024

Tags Budget, Local, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

What a Maine experiment shows us about universal basic income

“Doing something on a statewide basis could be hugely expensive depending on how big a population you’re talking about,” Garrett Martin, the CEO of the liberal Maine […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted September 10, 2024

Tags Budget, Guaranteed Income

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Mills administration agrees to give unionized state workers $2K payments

But another analysis, this one from the Maine Center for Economic Policy, contested that conclusion, noting that growth in private sector wages have outpaced growth for state public […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted September 5, 2024

Tags Budget, Unions, Wages

Taxes and Budget

From Augusta – Prioritizing policies that support Maine families

Amid the rising costs making it harder for folks to make ends meet, lawmakers boosted tax credits for working families. In the first regular session, I voted […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted August 1, 2024

Tags Budget, Revenue, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Letter: Invest in Maine people and communities

Mainers cannot work if they are not healthy and lack access to stable, affordable housing or child care. They cannot support local businesses if they have no […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted May 28, 2024

Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Lawmakers can do better for Maine workers, families and communities

Elected leaders in Maine strengthen our communities and address economic challenges through legislation. The major challenge facing Maine’s economy is the state’s plateauing workforce and to solve it we […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted May 22, 2024

Tags Budget, Direct Care Work, Economic Security, Incomes, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, K-12 Education, Minimum Wage, Racial Equity, Unemployment, Wages

Taxes and Budget

Meet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies

For example, earlier this year, the Maine legislature approved a $2 million tax credit for Diamond Baseball Holdings to upgrade the stadium of the Portland Sea Dogs, […]

Boondoggle

Posted May 17, 2024

Tags Budget, Corporate Power, Tax Fairness, Taxes

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New budget projections highlight the need to get serious about raising revenue

After strong start, organizers hope to expand Maine’s guaranteed income pilot program

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expiration is a chance for Tax Fairness to flourish

Monopoly League Baseball

What a Maine experiment shows us about universal basic income

Mills administration agrees to give unionized state workers $2K payments

From Augusta – Prioritizing policies that support Maine families

Letter: Invest in Maine people and communities

Lawmakers can do better for Maine workers, families and communities

Meet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies