Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Effects of Federal Funding Cuts In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to talk about federal funding cuts. Click […] WGME Posted February 19, 2025 Tags Budget, Federal, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Wednesday Sit Down
Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Maine's budget battle 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 budget battle at the […] WGME Posted February 12, 2025 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes, Wednesday Sit Down
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Consumer protections In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to discuss consumer protections. Click here to […] WGME Posted February 5, 2025 Tags Consumer Protection, Federal, Wednesday Sit Down
Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Proposed federal funding freeze In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, we discuss confusion over President Donald Trump’s proposed federal funding freeze. Click here to watch the full video, first posted January 29, […] WGME Posted January 29, 2025 Tags Federal, Wednesday Sit Down
Health Care Wednesday Sit-Down: Changes to Medicaid looming In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to discuss upcoming changes to Medicaid. Click […] WGME Posted December 11, 2024 Tags Federal, Medicaid, Wednesday Sit Down
Maine’s Economy Wednesday Sit-Down: Trump's deportation plan 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 impacts of Trump’s proposed […] WGME Posted November 21, 2024 Tags Federal, Immigration, Inequality, Racial Equity, Wednesday Sit Down
Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Impact of Trump tax plan 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 impact of Trump’s tax […] WGME Posted November 13, 2024 Tags Budget, Federal, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes, Wednesday Sit Down
Jobs and Income Wednesday Sit-Down: State of working in Maine in 2024 In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, James Myall, policy analyst from the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to talk about the state of […] WGME Posted October 23, 2024 Tags Caregiving, Economic Security, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Wages, Wednesday Sit Down
Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Maine's looming 'structural' budget gap In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to discuss Maine’s looming “structural” budget gap. […] WGME Posted October 16, 2024 Tags Budget, Revenue, Wednesday Sit Down
Education, Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Addressing the challenges of Maine's teacher shortage 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 challenges Maine is seeing […] WGME Posted September 11, 2024 Tags Education, Job Quality, Jobs, K-12 Education, Wednesday Sit Down