Taxes and Budget

Federal Working Families Tax Relief Act would boost incomes for 187,000 Maine households

For many Americans with low incomes, it’s a constant challenge to keep up with expenses and provide for their kids’ basic needs. Many parents work hard but […]

Sarah Austin

Posted September 4, 2019

Tags Child Tax Credit, Children, EITC, Federal, Incomes, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Maine’s Economy

Editorial: Fewer Maine children are living in poverty. Thank the minimum wage increase.

The Bangor Daily News editorial board published an editorial citing MECEP’s research linking the 2017 minimum wage increase to a dramatic reduction in child poverty: Income for […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted October 3, 2018

Tags Children, Minimum Wage, Poverty

Jobs and Income

MECEP Policy Brief: Minimum wage increase brought higher wages, reduced child poverty in 2017

Summary: Maine’s voter-approved minimum wage increase in 2017 led to the fastest wage increase in a decade for low-income Mainers and helped lift 10,000 Maine children out […]

James Myall

Posted September 24, 2018

Tags Children, Economic Security, Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Letter to the Editor: A setback for Maine families

Does anyone really think Maine’s food pantries can do it all? Between 2011 and 2015, the number of Maine children living in extreme poverty rose eight times […]

Sun Journal

Posted April 25, 2018

Tags Children, Food Insecurity, Poverty

Taxes and Budget

New Analysis: Senate Child Tax Credit Proposal Stacks the Deck Against Rural Working Families

New analysis by MECEP shows that the proposal by US Senate Republicans to increase the size of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) will do little for the […]

James Myall

Posted November 29, 2017

Tags Child Tax Credit, Children, Federal, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

Senate plan to increase child tax credit falls short for Maine’s most vulnerable children

The Senate Republican tax plan fails to offer meaningful benefit to Maine’s working families with children. The plan’s signature change for working families, a change to the […]

James Myall

Posted November 22, 2017

Tags Child Tax Credit, Children, Taxes

Taxes and Budget

GOP Child Care Tax Credits Leave out 29,000 low-income Maine children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 10, 2017 CONTACT Marpheen Chann mchann@mecep.org (207) 620-1128 GOP Child Care Tax Credits Leave out 29,000 low-income Maine children AUGUSTA, MAINE (November 10, 2017) — Today, Ivanka Trump joined a round […]

Posted November 12, 2017

Tags Children, Federal, Taxes

Education

MECEP Op-Ed: in the BDN: Without a fair funding source, many Maine kids won’t get a quality education

When contrasted with the tax breaks the top 2 percent of Mainers will enjoy over the next two years, the increased school funding looks like less of […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted September 5, 2017

Tags Children, Education, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Taxes

Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget

DHHS denies the facts, misappropriates funds Congress authorized to fight Maine’s soaring child poverty

For the last seven years, Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) policies have contributed to the disturbing escalation in child poverty and stashed or misappropriated […]

James Myall

Posted May 11, 2017

Tags Children, Poverty

Taxes and Budget

Testimony In Support of LD 1475 “An Act to Reduce Child Poverty by Leveraging Investments in Families Today.” Maine Center for Economic Policy

For several years now, Maine’s approach to child poverty has effectively been to ignore it. Federal money earmarked for specific purpose of addressing this problem has been […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted May 8, 2017

Tags Children, Poverty

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Federal Working Families Tax Relief Act would boost incomes for 187,000 Maine households

Editorial: Fewer Maine children are living in poverty. Thank the minimum wage increase.

MECEP Policy Brief: Minimum wage increase brought higher wages, reduced child poverty in 2017

Letter to the Editor: A setback for Maine families

New Analysis: Senate Child Tax Credit Proposal Stacks the Deck Against Rural Working Families

Senate plan to increase child tax credit falls short for Maine’s most vulnerable children

GOP Child Care Tax Credits Leave out 29,000 low-income Maine children

MECEP Op-Ed: in the BDN: Without a fair funding source, many Maine kids won’t get a quality education

DHHS denies the facts, misappropriates funds Congress authorized to fight Maine’s soaring child poverty

Testimony In Support of LD 1475 “An Act to Reduce Child Poverty by Leveraging Investments in Families Today.” Maine Center for Economic Policy