Jobs and Income

Testimony in Opposition to: LD 774, 775, 778, 831, 971, 991, 1005

The potential benefits of the recent minimum wage increase could be jeopardized for workers, families, children, and seniors if the proposals to eliminate indexing or reduce minimum […]

Jody Harris

Posted April 5, 2017

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Testimony in Support of LD 895 An Act To Help Maine Manufacturing and LD 956 An Act To Establish the Maine Buy America and Build Maine Act

We urge to the committee to support this legislation, which would help preserve good-paying manufacturing jobs in Maine and elsewhere in the United States by helping our […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted March 27, 2017

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Jobs and Income

A $12 minimum wage by 2020 will lift wages for Maine women and their families (pie chart)

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 19, 2016

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Jobs and Income

Restoring the Value of Work (full report)

This November, Maine voters will consider a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage incrementally to $12 an hour by 2020 and gradually increase the subminimum […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 17, 2016

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Jobs and Income

Restoring the Value of Work (executive summary)

This November, Maine voters will consider a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage incrementally to $12 an hour by 2020 and gradually increase the subminimum […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 17, 2016

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