Jobs and Income

Private-sector Payroll Employment 2008-16 (line graph)

Mark Sullivan

Posted April 15, 2016

Tags Employment

Shrinking Labor Force Biggest Contributor to Maine's Declining Unemployment Rate (line graph)

Mark Sullivan

Posted April 15, 2016

Tags Employment

Jobs and Income

Testimony in opposition to LD 1553, “An Act to Improve the Workers’ Compensation System”

“The bill under consideration would remove the voice of Mainers from any future changes to the determination of employee status for workers’ compensation purposes. That determination, and […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted February 2, 2016

Tags Employment, Incomes

Jobs and Income

Maine Unemployment Numbers, Dec, 2006-Dec. 2015

Mark Sullivan

Posted January 26, 2016

Tags Employment

Jobs and Income

Testimony in Support of LD 1268, “An Act to Reform Welfare by Establishing Bridges to Sustainable Employment”

The portion of this bill that addresses the benefit “cliff” helps people move from state and federal assistance to employment without suddenly losing critical monthly income. The […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted May 12, 2015

Tags Education, Employment

Jobs and Income

Labor Force Participation Falling (graph)

Mark Sullivan

Posted March 20, 2015

Tags Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

The only surprise in Maine’s labor force participation decline is why it took so long to happen

Maine’s labor force participation was 64.1% in 2014, down from 65.1% in 2013, according to model-based estimates from the Labor Department released earlier this year. Maine’s 2014 […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted March 19, 2015

Tags Employment, Jobs, Unemployment

Jobs and Income

Maine's Jobs Recovery Trails the Nation and New England

Mark Sullivan

Posted December 19, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine's Injured and Disabled Workers: A Humanitarian Challenge and an Economic Opportunity

Workers hurt on the job have no lobby in the State House, so little fanfare accompanied the Bureau of Labor Statistics release on workplace injury this week. […]

Christy Daggett

Posted December 15, 2014

Tags Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak

Today’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) doesn’t give us much new information. Maine’s unemployment rate is about the same as the national […]

Garrett Martin

Posted November 21, 2014

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Private-sector Payroll Employment 2008-16 (line graph)

Shrinking Labor Force Biggest Contributor to Maine's Declining Unemployment Rate (line graph)

Testimony in opposition to LD 1553, “An Act to Improve the Workers’ Compensation System”

Maine Unemployment Numbers, Dec, 2006-Dec. 2015

Testimony in Support of LD 1268, “An Act to Reform Welfare by Establishing Bridges to Sustainable Employment”

Labor Force Participation Falling (graph)

The only surprise in Maine’s labor force participation decline is why it took so long to happen

Maine's Jobs Recovery Trails the Nation and New England

Maine's Injured and Disabled Workers: A Humanitarian Challenge and an Economic Opportunity

Maine's Jobs Recovery Still Weak