Jobs and Income

Flexible workplaces are good for Maine workers and Maine's economy

Workplace flexibility policies would benefit Maine’s working families and its large population of senior workers as well as its economy. Workplace flexibility means the acceptance of adjustments […]

Katherine Churchill

Posted July 10, 2014

Tags Job Quality

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

Maine’s official unemployment rate continues to fall along with the nation as a whole, but “underemployment” is as big a problem as ever, according to data released […]

Joel Johnson

Posted May 7, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Boston Fed President Agrees: Many Mainers Still Struggling in Weak Labor Market

Like MECEP, the Boston Federal Reserve Bank is looking deeper into Maine’s labor market statistics finding that employment prospects for Mainers are still nowhere near as good […]

Joel Johnson

Posted April 16, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine's Labor Market Recovery: Far from Complete

Nearly five years after the end of the worst recession since the 1930s, Maine’s economic recovery is still far from complete. Maine has recouped only half the […]

Jody Harris

Posted April 1, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Jobs Recovery by State: January 2011-December 2013

MECEP’s summary of state-by-state total job growth from January 2011 to December 2013, Jobs Recovery By State Jan 2011 – Dec 2013

Jody Harris

Posted April 1, 2014

Tags Employment, Job Quality, Jobs

Maine’s Economy

State of Working Maine in 2013

Workers in Maine and across the nation remain in crisis. The typical working Mainer has yet to find relief from a long-term economic malaise that began more […]

MECEP

Posted November 25, 2013

Tags Economy, Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Raise the Minimum Wage to Reward Work and Boost Maine’s Economy

Today, Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research, and Economic Development (LCRED) takes action on LD 611, which would raise Maine’s minimum wage from $7.50 to […]

Joel Johnson

Posted March 22, 2013

Tags Economy, Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Testimony at Hearing on LD 611: An Act to Adjust Maine's Minimum Wage Annually Based on Cost-of-living Changes

Increasing the minimum wage by a dollar and indexing it to inflation will reward hard-working Mainers and help pull Maine’s economy out of the doldrums after the […]

MECEP

Posted March 14, 2013

Tags Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Working Harder, Falling Farther Behind

Mainers lucky enough to have a job are working harder than ever, but still finding it hard to make ends meet. A typical Maine family works over […]

Joel Johnson

Posted August 31, 2012

Tags Economic Security, Job Quality

Jobs and Income

States Spend Billions on Economic Development Subsidies that Don’t Require Job Creation or Decent Wages

Maine Programs Gets Erratic Scores, State Ranks 21st December 14, 2011–States are spending billions of dollars per year on corporate tax credits, cash grants and other economic […]

Posted December 14, 2011

Tags Budget, Economy, Job Quality, Jobs

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Flexible workplaces are good for Maine workers and Maine's economy

Maine’s Large Number of “Involuntary” Part-time Workers Showing No Sign of Decline

Boston Fed President Agrees: Many Mainers Still Struggling in Weak Labor Market

Maine's Labor Market Recovery: Far from Complete

Jobs Recovery by State: January 2011-December 2013

State of Working Maine in 2013

Raise the Minimum Wage to Reward Work and Boost Maine’s Economy

Testimony at Hearing on LD 611: An Act to Adjust Maine's Minimum Wage Annually Based on Cost-of-living Changes

Working Harder, Falling Farther Behind

States Spend Billions on Economic Development Subsidies that Don’t Require Job Creation or Decent Wages