Continuing services budget provides stability to Maine communities and economy

Two weeks ago, the Joint Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs decided the budget for the upcoming two years would be divided into two parts: a “continuing […]

Josie Phillips

Posted April 3, 2023

Tags Budget, Caregiving, Children, Education, Health Care, Wages

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Maine lawmakers push to expand MaineCare to some non-citizens

“With some of the previous expansions of MaineCare, the federal government has born a lot of the cost,” Maine Center for Economic Policy Analyst James Myall said. […]

Fox 23

Posted March 28, 2023

Tags Health Care, Racial Equity, Taxes

Health Care

Will legislators undo LePage’s rollback and restore health coverage to low-income immigrants?

“New Mainers are particularly likely to work in grocery stores and care homes, restaurant kitchens and hotels — many of the industries which are currently struggling to […]

Beacon

Posted February 27, 2023

Tags Health Care, Racial Equity

Health Care

Advocates worry that ‘fentanyl hysteria’ will further criminalize people who use drugs

“By 2016, harm reduction activists noted the product on the street that was being sold as heroin had almost none,” reads A Better Path for Maine: The […]

Beacon

Posted February 13, 2023

Tags Health Care

Taxes and Budget

Yes, a budget can change lives

Upcoming budget process gives legislators a choice to make our communities more resilient As Mainers have seen, when legislators resist a scarcity mindset and choose to fund […]

Josie Phillips

Posted January 9, 2023

Tags Budget, Child Tax Credit, Children, Health Care

Health Care

MaineCare Expansion at 4: Greater Care, Healthier Hospitals, Stronger Economy

On January 3, 2019, Governor Janet Mills signed her first executive order, implementing the expansion of MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, which had been approved by voters in […]

James Myall

Posted January 3, 2023

Tags Health Care, Immigration, Medicaid

Health Care

Medicaid expansion, COVID relief helped Maine reach record levels of health coverage in 2021

Census data released last week shows that just under 78,000 Mainers (about 5.7%) lacked health insurance in 2021. That’s the lowest share of uninsured people dating back to 1988, […]

Beacon

Posted September 20, 2022

Tags Coronavirus, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

Census data: Health insurance coverage in Maine at record levels

This week, the U.S. Census Bureau released 2021 poverty, income, and health data from its Current Population and American Community Surveys (CPS and ACS). Overall, the new national and state […]

Posted September 15, 2022

Tags Child Tax Credit, Economic Security, EITC, Health Care, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

Families, advocates demand accountability after string of deaths in Maine prisons and jails

Advocates at the rally argued that the rise in prison and jail deaths is related to decades of policy decisions in Maine that have resulted in a […]

Beacon

Posted September 12, 2022

Tags Budget, Health Care, Inequality

Health Care, Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

The Inflation Reduction Act makes our tax code fairer, tackles the climate crisis, and makes health care more affordable for Mainers

On Sunday, the US Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill which promises to make historic investments in clean energy, long-awaited fixes to our upside-down tax […]

James Myall

Posted August 11, 2022

Tags Federal, Health Care, Inflation, Tax Fairness, Taxes

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Continuing services budget provides stability to Maine communities and economy

Maine lawmakers push to expand MaineCare to some non-citizens

Will legislators undo LePage’s rollback and restore health coverage to low-income immigrants?

Advocates worry that ‘fentanyl hysteria’ will further criminalize people who use drugs

Yes, a budget can change lives

MaineCare Expansion at 4: Greater Care, Healthier Hospitals, Stronger Economy

Medicaid expansion, COVID relief helped Maine reach record levels of health coverage in 2021

Census data: Health insurance coverage in Maine at record levels

Families, advocates demand accountability after string of deaths in Maine prisons and jails

The Inflation Reduction Act makes our tax code fairer, tackles the climate crisis, and makes health care more affordable for Mainers