Jobs and Income When Hard Work Isn't Enough - Fostering Opportunity for Maine's Working Families In 2008, nearly ten thousand working families in Maine lived under the federal poverty line, and nearly 38,000 working families struggled under the “low-income” threshold or the 200% […] Jody Harris Posted December 13, 2010 Tags Economy, Incomes, Jobs, Poverty
Taxes and Budget "Economic Development in Hard Times: How to Spend Less and Get More" More than 50 people attended MECEP’s Second Shepard Lee Lecture by Good Jobs First Founder and Executive Director Greg LeRoy at USM on Tuesday (11/16) evening. MECEP […] Mark Sullivan Posted November 17, 2010 Tags Budget, Economy
Taxes and Budget Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First Founder, to Deliver MECEP's 11/16 Shepard Lee Lecture Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, 11/16), Greg LeRoy, Founder and Executive Director of Good Jobs First, will deliver MECEP’s latest Shepard Lee Lecture. LeRoy’s topic will be “Economic Development […] Mark Sullivan Posted November 15, 2010 Tags Budget, Economy
Maine’s Economy Short Term Challenge, Long Term Optimisim In his State Fiscal Policy Conference presentation (“Struggling to Hit Escape Velocity”) in D.C. yesterday, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics Mark Zandi stressed that the nation’s economic […] Mark Sullivan Posted November 10, 2010 Tags Economy, Federal
Maine’s Economy LIVE BLOG: CBPP's 18th Annual State Fiscal Policy Conference Kit St. John, Garrett Martin, Dan Coyne and I are all in D.C. to attend the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) 18th annual State Fiscal […] Mark Sullivan Posted November 9, 2010 Tags Economy
Maine’s Economy Choices: Housing Choice Vouchers: Stabilizing Lives and Strengthening Maine's Economy The Voucher Program is a proven success. It assists low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled in securing safe housing in the private market. These families experience increased economic security while small businesses benefit as well. This issue […] Jody Harris Posted October 25, 2010 Tags Economic Security, Economy
Maine’s Economy Choices: No Magic Bullets: Energy Policy for Maine in the Next Decade In the 1990s Maine’s power rates were 50% above the national average. Then Maine restructured its electric industry beginning in March 2000. Today power rates are closer to 20% above […] Jody Harris Posted October 21, 2010 Tags Economy
Taxes and Budget Choices: Maine's Balancing Act: Maintaining Services, Investing in the Future Across the nation, states have seen an unprecedented collapse in revenues as a result of the longest, deepest recession since the Great Depression. This causes a perplexing […] Jody Harris Posted October 18, 2010 Tags Budget, Economy
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Maine Government Plays Critical Role Protecting People and Jobs during Recession A democratic government is a work in progress. In the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression, it is understandable that many pundits are reexamining […] Garrett Martin Posted September 28, 2010 Tags Budget, Economy, Revenue, Taxes
Maine’s Economy Amenity Investments and Tourist Destination Development: Policy Insights from Three Rural Maine Regions Realizing rural Maine’s tourism’s sustainable growth potential demands bold, creative and tenacious state, regional and local leadership. Bowdoin College Professor of Economics David Vail recommends cost-effective policies […] Jody Harris Posted August 12, 2010 Tags Economy, Local