Taxes and Budget

Wednesday Sit-Down: Chaotic end to legislative session

In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to discuss the the chaotic end to […]

WGME

Posted May 15, 2024

Tags Budget, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, K-12 Education, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Wednesday Sit Down

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Worker justice wins and losses in the 2024 legislative session

The second session of Maine’s 131st legislature ended Friday, as resistance from Governor Mills and inaction in the House left many important bills to die. While lawmakers […]

Arthur Phillips

Posted May 15, 2024

Tags Budget, Incomes, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Wages

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

From farmworker wage bill to raising taxes on wealthy, legislators sustain Gov. Mills’ vetoes

The House vote on the farmworker minimum wage bill was 54 in favor of overriding the governor and 69 in favor of sustaining the veto. After the […]

News From The States

Posted May 10, 2024

Tags Budget, Job Quality, Jobs

Education, Jobs and Income

Wednesday Sit-Down: Teacher pay in Maine

In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Grace Leavitt of the Maine Education Association sits down with CBS 13 to talk about teacher pay in Maine. Click here to […]

WGME

Posted May 8, 2024

Tags Education, Job Quality, Jobs, K-12 Education, Wednesday Sit Down

Jobs and Income

Pushing back on veto, farmworker advocates say Mills’ proposal scaled back labor rights

Arthur Phillips, a policy analyst with the Maine Center for Economic Policy who was part of the stakeholder commission that worked on recommendations for the bill, agreed […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted May 7, 2024

Tags Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Gov. Mills signs executive order to boost employment of women in construction

The percentage of jobs unfilled in Maine has nearly doubled compared to 20 years ago, according to the annual “State of Working Maine” report from the Maine […]

Yahoo! News

Posted May 6, 2024

Tags Economic Security, Gender, Inequality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Advocates dismayed by Gov. Mills’ veto of her own bill to improve farmworker wages

In a statement, the Maine Center for Economic Policy said Mills vetoed the bill “simply because it ensured farmworkers have the same access to the courts that […]

Beacon

Posted April 25, 2024

Tags Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Racial Equity

Jobs and Income

Gov. Mills vetoes 3 bills, including measure to set minimum wage for farmworkers

“After a year of deliberation, with all relevant stakeholders at the table agreeing farmworkers should be guaranteed at least the minimum wage, Gov. Mills still chose to […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted April 23, 2024

Tags Economic Security, Job Quality, Jobs, Wages

Jobs and Income

Labor advocates call Gov. Mills’ veto of her own farmworker wage bill ‘an embarrassment’

Arthur Phillips, policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy who served on the minimum wage committee, said Mills “has reaffirmed farmworkers’ second-class status in Maine’s […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted April 23, 2024

Tags Economic Security, Job Quality, Jobs, Wages

Jobs and Income

MECEP statement on LD 2273 and LD 525, the farmworker minimum wage and concerted activity bills

AUGUSTA, Maine — Arthur Phillips, policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP), released the following statement in reaction to Governor Mills’s vetoes of LD […]

Posted April 23, 2024

Tags Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs

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Wednesday Sit-Down: Chaotic end to legislative session

Worker justice wins and losses in the 2024 legislative session

From farmworker wage bill to raising taxes on wealthy, legislators sustain Gov. Mills’ vetoes

Wednesday Sit-Down: Teacher pay in Maine

Pushing back on veto, farmworker advocates say Mills’ proposal scaled back labor rights

Gov. Mills signs executive order to boost employment of women in construction

Advocates dismayed by Gov. Mills’ veto of her own bill to improve farmworker wages

Gov. Mills vetoes 3 bills, including measure to set minimum wage for farmworkers

Labor advocates call Gov. Mills’ veto of her own farmworker wage bill ‘an embarrassment’

MECEP statement on LD 2273 and LD 525, the farmworker minimum wage and concerted activity bills