Maine Capital Investment Credit: A Bogus "Bonus" Maine Can't Afford

Imagine getting an unexpected bonus at the end of the year. It’s a nice windfall that we’d all appreciate. Would you feel differently if that bonus came […]

Garrett Martin

Posted January 29, 2015

Tags Economy, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy

Economist predicts slow and uneven economic growth in 2015

MECEP economist Joel Johnson recently spoke with MaineBiz about his predictions for the New Year. Joel forecast slow, unbalanced economic growth in 2015. Households will get a […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted January 23, 2015

Tags Economy, Inequality, Unemployment

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Statement on President Obama's State of the Union Address

The Maine Center for Economic Policy issued the following statement from executive director Garrett Martin in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address this evening: […]

Posted January 20, 2015

Tags Economy

Maine’s Economy

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

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

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

Maine’s Economy

Dean Baker to Deliver MECEP's 2014 Shepard Lee Lecture

Economist, writer, commentator, and blogger Dean Baker will deliver the next Shepard Lee lecture on Monday, December 1 at Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium. Baker is […]

Posted November 6, 2014

Tags Economy

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Matters (October 2014 edition)

It’s down to the wire as Mainers go to the polls next week to choose a governor, both houses of the state legislature, a U.S. Senator, and […]

Posted October 31, 2014

Tags Economy

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Matters (September 2014 edition)

This month, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on poverty, income, and health insurance revealed Maine to be an outlier among states in providing health coverage […]

Posted September 29, 2014

Tags Economy

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Maine Capital Investment Credit: A Bogus "Bonus" Maine Can't Afford

Economist predicts slow and uneven economic growth in 2015

MECEP Statement on President Obama's State of the Union Address

Maine Jobs Recovery Continues to Trail the Nation and New England

Maine Work-related Injuries

Mainers on Disability

Migration Mythologists Flee Facts

Dean Baker to Deliver MECEP's 2014 Shepard Lee Lecture

MECEP Matters (October 2014 edition)

MECEP Matters (September 2014 edition)