Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP Over the course of one year, nearly 1 in 5 Mainers will rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table. […] Marpheen Chann-Berry Posted August 10, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP
Health Care Happy birthday to Medicaid and to the thousands of children whose lives it has saved I will never forget one day when was in my late 20s, expecting my first baby. I happened to be alone with my grandmother in her tiny, […] Christy Daggett Posted August 3, 2015 Tags Children, Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined dramatically since Congress created Medicaid 50 years ago Mark Sullivan Posted August 3, 2015 Tags Children, Medicaid
Education A paperwork obstacle is denying Maine kids healthy, nutritious school meals We all know that being hungry can make us irritable, tired, and addled. We only have to watch the recent Snickers™ television commercials to appreciate we are […] Jody Harris Posted March 19, 2015 Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity
Maine’s Economy Testimony in Support of LD 380, Resolve, To Establish a Working Group to Aid with the End of Student Hunger “School is hard enough without having to suffer the maladies that hunger causes. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 […] Mark Sullivan Posted March 19, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity
Education Testimony in Opposition to Proposed Cuts to Early Child Care and Education “Based on research conducted by MECEP last year, we can document the that vital funding for Head Start and child care services not only helps thousands of […] Mark Sullivan Posted March 9, 2015 Tags Children, Education
Maine’s Economy Child poverty fell in 2013, but median household income continues to go nowhere Child poverty in Maine fell back to pre-recession levels in 2013, but income for the median household and the overall poverty rate saw no improvement, according to […] Joel Johnson Posted September 18, 2014 Tags Children, Incomes, Job Quality, Poverty
Jobs and Income Maine’s Working Families Deserve to Earn a Living Wage The new report by the Alliance for a Just Society, “Families Out of Balance: How a living wage helps families move from debt to stability,” provides sobering […] Christy Daggett Posted August 27, 2014 Tags Children, Incomes, Jobs, Poverty
Maine’s Economy Testimony at Hearing on LD 1819: Resolve, To Create the Task Force To End Student Hunger in Maine MECEP has working on issues related to student hunger going back to 2010 when we researched and published “Child Hunger Doesn’t End with the School Year.” In […] MECEP Posted March 21, 2014 Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity, K-12 Education
Education Community Eligibility Program can help hungry kids This week we celebrate National School Breakfast Week. The breakfast program began as a pilot program in 1966. Now, in the wake of the Great Recession, 11.6 […] Christy Daggett Posted March 7, 2014 Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity
