Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Paid sick days will boost Maine’s economy In “ State of Working Maine 2018,” the Maine Center for Economic Policy outlined the evidence proving how a lack of paid sick leave hurts our state. This […] Bangor Daily News Posted February 21, 2019 Tags Economy, Job Quality, Paid Sick Days
Taxes and Budget Republicans want to pay for their huge tax cuts with cuts to Social Security and health care When Congress was on the cusp of passing the Republican tax plan last year, experts lined up to warn about the effect the plan would have on the federal […] Bangor Daily News Posted November 6, 2018 Tags Health Care, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Health Care Maine Voices: Proposed gag rule would hit hardest the most vulnerable women Title X, a crucial part of our health care system, is under attack. If successful, the Trump-Pence administration will undermine health care for millions of Americans, undermining […] Portland Press Herald Posted August 11, 2018 Tags Federal, Health Care, Inequality
Jobs and Income MECEP Op-Ed in PPH: Hungry Mainers need bipartisan Senate farm bill that supports SNAP “Our senators, Susan Collins and Angus King, should support their colleagues’ bipartisan work and support [the Senate Farm Bill] when it is taken up by the Senate. […] Posted June 18, 2018 Tags Federal, SNAP
Taxes and Budget MECEP Op-Ed in the Press Herald: More important for Maine to do tax conformity well than to do it quickly It’s more important to get conformity right than it is to do it soon. Whenever it is, the same questions must be asked of a conformity proposal […] Portland Press Herald Posted May 7, 2018 Tags Taxes, Trump Tax Cuts
Taxes and Budget MECEP Op-Ed in the Press Herald: LePage’s tax plan gives huge benefits to a few at expense of the many We can fully fund our public schools. We can build a robust infrastructure that lays the groundwork for sustained, shared economic prosperity. We can maintain a public […] Portland Press Herald Posted March 29, 2018 Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Jobs and Income MECEP Op-Ed in the BDN: Pine Tree Development Zones have failed. Lawmakers need better ideas to create jobs. This Op-Ed was originally published in the Bangor Daily News. Click here to see the original publication. Posted January 10, 2018 Tags Jobs
Health Care MECEP Op-Ed in KJ: On Nov. 7, vote for jobs, health care, hospitals Tens of thousands of Mainers have come together to ask Maine voters to approve an expansion of Maine’s Medicaid program (known as MaineCare) to more than 70,000 of their neighbors living in, or near, poverty. Central Maine Newspapers Posted September 20, 2017 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care MECEP Op-Ed in the BDN: The Republican assault on the Affordable Care Act is not over Health care accounts for one-sixth of our country’s economy. But more than that, it is desperately important to the mother with a sick child, an adult caring for […] Posted September 12, 2017 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care
Health Care MECEP Op-Ed in the Press Herald: Expanding Medicaid will help Maine hospitals, health centers and the economy Opponents of Medicaid expansion have no new arguments to offer, so they are resorting to fighting over the past. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of Medicaid […] Portland Press Herald Posted September 12, 2017 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
