Health Care, Jobs and Income Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . . The Urban Institute (UI) recently released a new analysis of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate (Why Not Just Eliminate the Employer Mandate?) and what the […] Guest Blogger Posted May 13, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Jobs and Income Much of New Hampshire is a Bedroom of Massachusetts Yesterday’s report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities briefly touches on another fact about New Hampshire that anti-tax activists never mention: much of the state […] Joel Johnson Posted May 9, 2014 Tags Incomes, Jobs, Taxes
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
Health Care, Jobs and Income More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine A new study finds that Romneycare – the Massachusetts health insurance program that was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act – has prevented 230 […] Christy Daggett Posted May 6, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Jobs and Income Governor LePage deals another blow to Maine farmers and fishermen Just as Governor LePage’s policies have taken health insurance away from Maine’s small farmers and fishermen, now he wants to take local business away from them too. […] Jody Harris Posted April 24, 2014 Tags Food Insecurity, Jobs
Health Care, Jobs and Income Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds Maine has a higher-than-average number of small businesses and one in seven Mainers is self-employed. More than half of Mainers are self-employed as farmers, loggers, fishermen, and […] Christy Daggett Posted April 22, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Education, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
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 needs a research and development bond Maine needs jobs and good jobs at that. Bonding to invest in research and development will result in more, better-paying jobs. Consider the story of two companies […] Jody Harris Posted April 11, 2014 Tags Bonds, 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 Maine's Jobs Recovery from the Great Recession Continues to Lag behind Other States Recovery weakest in rural areas and among workers 25 to 54, those most likely to be raising families, saving for the future. Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, April 1, […] Posted April 1, 2014 Tags Jobs, Minimum Wage