Health Care, Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Legislative Rundown: First regular session of the 132nd Co-authored by James Myall, Arthur Phillips & Maura Pillsbury In the first half of 2025, MECEP presented 110 pieces of testimony before the Maine Legislature that affect […] MECEP Posted July 30, 2025 Tags Appropriations Committee, Budget, Caregiving, Child Care, Consumer Protection, Corporate Power, Direct Care Work, Economic Security, Farmworkers, Health Care, Housing, Immigration, Income Tax, Incomes, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Susan Collins Is Not Concerned The Maine Center for Economic Policy finds that as a result of that mega-bill, up to 31,000 people in the state could lose SNAP benefits, another 170,000 will […] The American Prospect Posted July 24, 2025 Tags Budget, Federal, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Podcast: The real cost of Trump’s federal budget bill This week on the podcast, Cate chats with Garrett Martin of the Maine Center for Economic Policy. They do some unpacking on what the new federal tax […] Beacon Posted July 11, 2025 Tags Budget, Federal, Medicaid, Revenue, SNAP, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Wednesday Sit-Down: Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS13/FOX23 to talk about the impacts of the “One […] WGME Posted July 10, 2025 Tags Budget, Economic Security, Economy, Federal, Tax Breaks, Trump Tax Cuts, Wednesday Sit Down
Health Care, Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget MECEP Statement on Passage of Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill July 1, 2025 Make no mistake: the reconciliation bill that squeaked through the Senate today is a five-alarm fire for Maine’s working families. We’re staring at the […] Posted July 1, 2025 Tags Affordable Care Act, Angus King, Budget, Debt Ceiling, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid, SNAP, Susan Collins, Tax Breaks, Taxes, TCJA, Trump Tax Cuts
Taxes and Budget Mainers deserve better: Corporate tax breaks win while care workers, students, reproductive health services, and families at risk of eviction get left behind In the final hours of the legislative session, lawmakers are poised to choose corporations over care workers, tax breaks over tenant protections, and profits over people. While […] Maura Pillsbury Posted June 25, 2025 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget MECEP Statement on Supplemental Budget Signed Into Law The Maine Legislature made some good budget moves — funding child care, school meals, boosting the child tax credit for young kids, and supporting affordable housing through […] Posted June 23, 2025 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Havens, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Legislators, advocates, experts urge Augusta to tax the wealthiest Mainers to fund vital programs – not make cuts Maura Pillsbury, a state and local tax policy analyst with Maine Center for Economic Policy, speaks at Thursday’s Mainers For Tax Fairness press conference in Augusta. Click […] Beacon Posted June 6, 2025 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Opinion: COLA for retirees got cut, millionaires got breaks — let’s change that The gap you see in the chart is due to pandemic-era collection issues for the census, but the trend is clear. Over the past decade, the top […] Beacon Posted June 5, 2025 Tags Budget, Revenue, Tax Breaks, Taxes
Taxes and Budget Poll: Majority of Mainers say support for GOP budget would hurt Collins in 2026 Maine Center of Economic Policy President and CEO Garrett Martin echoed Pingree. “Let’s be clear: this bill is an abomination,” Martin said. “It rips food off the […] Beacon Posted May 22, 2025 Tags Budget, Federal, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
