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 […]

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 […]

Posted August 17, 2016

Tags Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Working parents make up 1 in 4 workers who will benefit (pie chart)

Posted August 17, 2016

Tags Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

More than half of workers who will receive a raise have education beyond high school, 1 in 6 are college graduates (bar chart)

Posted August 17, 2016

Tags Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

9 out of 10 workers who will receive a raise are age 20 or older (bar chart)

Posted August 17, 2016

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The minimumwage worker-productivity gap has grown wider for half a century (line graph)

Posted August 17, 2016

Tags Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Maine Jobs Numbers Yet to Recover to 2008 Levels (line graph)

Posted August 15, 2016

Tags Employment, Jobs

Jobs and Income

During the Recession and Recovery (2008-015) Maine's small businesses lost more jobs than large companies (bar chart)

Posted August 3, 2016

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Jobs and Income

Maine State Government Is Already at Its Smallest Size in 20 Years (line graph)

Posted July 28, 2016

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Jobs and Income

Minority Population Share, 2000-14 in Maine's Major Labor Markets (bar chart)

Posted May 27, 2016

Tags Jobs, Racial Equity

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