Jobs and Income Maine’s Jobs Recovery is Mostly in Portland 4 out of every 5 jobs that Maine employers have added in the last five years have been in the greater Portland area, according to data released […] Joel Johnson Posted May 29, 2014 Tags Employment, Jobs
Jobs and Income Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline Maine’s official unemployment rate continues to fall along with the nation as a whole, but “underemployment” is as big a problem as ever, according to data released […] Joel Johnson Posted May 7, 2014 Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income Boston Fed President Agrees: Many Mainers Still Struggling in Weak Labor Market Like MECEP, the Boston Federal Reserve Bank is looking deeper into Maine’s labor market statistics finding that employment prospects for Mainers are still nowhere near as good […] Joel Johnson Posted April 16, 2014 Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income Maine's Labor Market Recovery: Far from Complete Nearly five years after the end of the worst recession since the 1930s, Maine’s economic recovery is still far from complete. Maine has recouped only half the […] Jody Harris Posted April 1, 2014 Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income Jobs Recovery by State: January 2011-December 2013 MECEP’s summary of state-by-state total job growth from January 2011 to December 2013, Jobs Recovery By State Jan 2011 – Dec 2013 Jody Harris Posted April 1, 2014 Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income Today's Jobs Report Finds Maine's Weak Jobs Recovery Continues Based on the most reliable data available, Maine ranked 48th among the states in job growth from January 2011 to September 2013. Augusta, Maine (Monday, March 17, […] Posted March 17, 2014 Tags Employment, Jobs, Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income Older Mainers are Driving Maine’s Employment Recovery Maine’s older adults are driving Maine’s employment recovery from the recession. Not only do 55-and-older Mainers represent a disproportionately large share of Maine’s total population, they have […] Joel Johnson Posted February 27, 2014 Tags Employment, Jobs
Jobs and Income The Truth about Governor LePage’s Own Jobs Claim In Governor LePage’s recent State of the State address he touted his economic performance stating “Almost 13,000 new private-sector jobs have been created since we took office.” […] Garrett Martin Posted February 19, 2014 Tags Employment, Jobs, Minimum Wage
Jobs and Income State-by-State Job Growth January 2011-December 2013 Tables provide state-by-state data on both total job growth and private sector job growth. State-by-State Job Growth January 2011-December 2013 MECEP Posted February 19, 2014 Tags Employment, Jobs
Education, Health Care, Jobs and Income State Policies Are Failing Maine's Working Moms In 2012, women headed one of every three low-income working families in Maine, according to a new report released today by the Working Poor Families Project. These […] Jody Harris Posted February 12, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Children, Education, EITC, Employment, Health Care, Incomes, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Poverty, TANF