Taxes and Budget

Podcast: Better targeting Maine’s one-time checks could fund health care and housing

James Myall of the Maine Center for Economic Policy joins the podcast to discuss the current debate in the State House over how much should be sent […]

Beacon

Posted April 7, 2022

Tags Budget

Editorial: Crime and treatment

The ACLU and Maine Center for Economic Policy make the case for decriminalizing the use and possession of drugs and investing instead in things like treatment, recovery […]

Mount Desert Islander

Posted April 7, 2022

Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Inequality

Education

Students, advocates applaud new law that bans withholding transcripts over debt

The Maine Center for Economic Policy, which advocated for the law, said that nearly 10,000 students in the University of Maine system and attending Maine’s community colleges […]

Beacon

Posted April 5, 2022

Tags Education, Higher Education

Taxes and Budget

Despite spending more than $100 million a year, Maine’s drug crisis is getting worse

According to the report by MECEP and the ACLU of Maine, state and local governments spend $111 million a year – more than $8,000, on average, per drug arrest […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted April 4, 2022

Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Inequality

Health Care

Lawmakers vote to give more Maine children access to affordable healthcare

At the hearing, groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, Maine Children’s Alliance, United Way of Greater Portland and the Maine Center for Economic Policy came out […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 31, 2022

Tags Budget, Children, Health Care

Taxes and Budget

Poll: Mainers prefer investments in housing, infrastructure over one-time checks

Policy analysts at the Maine Center for Economic Policy have argued that if the one-time checks were more narrowly targeted, and the amount deposited in the Rainy […]

Beacon

Posted March 30, 2022

Tags Budget, Revenue

Taxes and Budget

Biden proposes billionaire tax to pay for increased spending on military, public health

Megan Michaud, vice president of programs and policy with the Maine Center for Economic Policy, said by closing offshore tax loopholes and taxing the unrealized capital gains on […]

Beacon

Posted March 29, 2022

Tags Budget, Federal, Revenue, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

How to create more bang for Maine’s budget bucks

This year’s historic budget surplus offers a rare opportunity to invest in Mainers in ways that will have a lasting and tangible impact. While many of the […]

MECEP

Posted March 23, 2022

Tags Budget, Children, Economy, Education, Health Care, Higher Education, Immigration, Inequality, Racial Equity

Taxes and Budget

Our View: The question at the heart of Maine’s overdose epidemic

According to a new report from the Maine chapter of the ACLU and the Maine Center for Economic Policy, state and local governments here spend $111 million on arresting […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 23, 2022

Tags Budget, Health Care, Revenue, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Legislature OKs bill to address ‘dark store’ tax scheme, measure to lift limits on clean syringes

As Beacon previously reported, large chain stores try to exploit a “dark store” tax scheme by arguing their retail properties should be valued the same as abandoned shopping centers that […]

Beacon

Posted March 23, 2022

Tags Budget, Dark Stores, Tax Fairness, Taxes

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Podcast: Better targeting Maine’s one-time checks could fund health care and housing

Editorial: Crime and treatment

Students, advocates applaud new law that bans withholding transcripts over debt

Despite spending more than $100 million a year, Maine’s drug crisis is getting worse

Lawmakers vote to give more Maine children access to affordable healthcare

Poll: Mainers prefer investments in housing, infrastructure over one-time checks

Biden proposes billionaire tax to pay for increased spending on military, public health

How to create more bang for Maine’s budget bucks

Our View: The question at the heart of Maine’s overdose epidemic

Legislature OKs bill to address ‘dark store’ tax scheme, measure to lift limits on clean syringes