Education, Maine’s Economy

'LIFT 2.0' bill will increase earnings, reduce poverty with job training, education

On Tuesday, Maine’s Speaker of the House, Sara Gideon, presented a bill to reduce poverty by expanding access to education and job training. The legislation will lift […]

Mario Moretto

Posted February 16, 2018

Tags Jobs, Poverty, SNAP, TANF

Jobs and Income

MECEP Op-Ed in the BDN: Pine Tree Development Zones have failed. Lawmakers need better ideas to create jobs.

This Op-Ed was originally published in the Bangor Daily News. Click here to see the original publication.

Posted January 10, 2018

Tags Jobs

Maine’s Economy

Minimum Wage Increase Contributes to Largest Annual Wage Gain in 10 years

Wage and employment gains during the first six months of 2017 reveal that Maine’s voter-approved minimum wage increase has not hurt the state’s economy as the referendum’s […]

James Myall

Posted January 8, 2018

Tags Jobs, Minimum Wage

Health Care

Maine Public: Would Expanding Medicaid Help Or Harm Mainers And The State's Hospitals?

If expansion passes, the federal government will initially cover 94 percent of the cost. That ratchets down to 90 percent by 2020 and stays at that level. The Maine Center for Economic Policy projects that’s an injection of about $500 million from the feds per year. But Littlefield says there’s also a state cost.

Maine Public

Posted October 31, 2017

Tags Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care

We All Have a Stake in Question 2

Right here in Knox and Waldo counties, the Maine Center for Economic Policy estimates there will be a $39 million impact on our local economy, with 367 new jobs created.

The Free Press

Posted October 26, 2017

Tags Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care

MECEP Podcast Ep. 2: Medicaid Expansion in Maine

In the second episode of MECEP’s podcast, our policy analyst James Myall joins us to explain the benefits of Medicaid Expansion in Maine—which includes expanding health coverage […]

MECEP Podcast

Posted October 23, 2017

Tags Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Maine’s Economy

MECEP Podcast Ep. 1: The State of Working Maine 2017

On the Maine Center of Economic Policy’s (MECEP) podcast, staff discuss the recently released report, The State of Working Maine 2017. Read the full report here: www.mecep.org/SOWM2017 Music […]

Posted October 20, 2017

Tags Economy, Jobs

Health Care

MECEP on WGAN to Explain the Benefits of Voting "YES" on 2 for Medicaid Expansion

This morning, MECEP Executive Director Garrett Martin went on-air on WGAN to lay out the benefits to Maine people and Maine’s economy if Mainers vote “yes” on […]

WGAN

Posted October 20, 2017

Tags Economy, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Jobs and Income

Out of work, out of hope – This is what a depressed economy looks like

Tens of thousands of Mainers disheartened by the dim prospects of good paying, middle-class jobs have given up looking for work. Some are discouraged to the point […]

James Myall

Posted September 21, 2017

Tags Economic Security, Jobs

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Decline in health tied to decline in workforce

People of prime working age have dropped out of the workforce at levels not previously seen by labor economists, especially outside greater Portland. According to a forthcoming study by […]

Sun Journal

Posted September 4, 2017

Tags Health Care, Jobs

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'LIFT 2.0' bill will increase earnings, reduce poverty with job training, education

MECEP Op-Ed in the BDN: Pine Tree Development Zones have failed. Lawmakers need better ideas to create jobs.

Minimum Wage Increase Contributes to Largest Annual Wage Gain in 10 years

Maine Public: Would Expanding Medicaid Help Or Harm Mainers And The State's Hospitals?

We All Have a Stake in Question 2

MECEP Podcast Ep. 2: Medicaid Expansion in Maine

MECEP Podcast Ep. 1: The State of Working Maine 2017

MECEP on WGAN to Explain the Benefits of Voting "YES" on 2 for Medicaid Expansion

Out of work, out of hope – This is what a depressed economy looks like

Decline in health tied to decline in workforce