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Jobs and Income

Proposals to bolster farmworkers’ hour and wage rights back before Legislature

The Maine AFL-CIO was generally in favor of the proposals, but described LD 588 as a compromise. All three of the bills were also supported by the […]

Maine Morning Star
Posted April 2, 2025
Tags Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Racial Equity
Taxes and Budget

Maine Senate Republicans backtrack on budget deal, jeopardizing health care and forestry

Updated 3/13/2025 At a glance: Maine Senate Republicans agreed on a budget to help health care and forestry — the state has extra funds to cover these […]

James Myall
Posted March 12, 2025
Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Jobs, Revenue
Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Direct care workers fight for restoration of cost-of-living increases in Maine budget

Arthur Phillips, policy analyst for the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a progressive think tank, said that without the COLAs, the average direct care worker will lose […]

Sun Journal
Posted March 6, 2025
Tags Direct Care Work, Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Maine shouldn't balance the budget on the backs of direct care workers

At a glance: Proposed budget cuts would lower direct care labor reimbursements, reducing pay and worsening workforce shortages Low wages for direct care professionals already impose significant […]

Arthur Phillips
Posted March 5, 2025
Tags Budget, Caregiving, Direct Care Work, Incomes, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Speaker of Maine House unveils bill to ease health care workforce shortage

A June 2024 analysis by the Maine Center for Economic Policy think tank said that Maine needs to hire an additional 2,300 full-time direct care workers — there are […]

Portland Press Herald
Posted January 13, 2025
Tags Budget, Direct Care Work, Job Quality, Jobs
Taxes and Budget

Increasing tobacco tax, AI protections among 2025 Maine health priorities

Jess Maurer, executive director of the Maine Council on Aging, and Arthur Phillips, the economic policy analyst with the Maine Center for Economic Policy, both said they […]

Maine Morning Star
Posted January 2, 2025
Tags Budget, Direct Care Work, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income

Maine’s minimum wage will get a boost Jan. 1

According to the Maine Center for Economic Policy, there are about 37,000 hourly workers in the state earning less than $14.65 hourly and an additional 50,000 employees […]

Portland Press Herald
Posted December 30, 2024
Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Wages
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy

How Maine can safeguard economic policies to protect consumers and workers

In Maine, companies are already prohibited from forcing non-compete agreements for employees earning at or below 400% of the federal poverty level (which in 2024, is around […]

Beacon
Posted December 19, 2024
Tags Federal, Job Quality, Jobs
Jobs and Income

Despite progress, Maine women still earn less and are more likely to live in poverty

And more than 23,500 hours of care that Mainers are entitled to goes undelivered every week, though this figure is likely an underestimate when accounting for reporting […]

Portland Press Herald
Posted December 12, 2024
Tags Incomes, Inequality, Jobs
Jobs and Income

Teen entrepreneurs mean business

James Myall, an economic policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy, pointed to the tight labor market and inflationary pressure as the two most likely […]

Portland Press Herald
Posted November 11, 2024
Tags Inflation, Job Quality, Jobs, Wages
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