Health Care Health Insurance is Good As summarized in the New York Times last week, two recent studies show that Medicaid works. A study conducted in Oregon by researchers from MIT and Harvard […] Joel Johnson Posted July 31, 2012 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
Maine’s Economy Out of the mouths of babes... Scott Moody, executive director of the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC), had this to say yesterday in response to a Portland press event on child hunger: When you’re […] Jody Harris Posted July 26, 2012 Tags Children, Food Insecurity
Taxes and Budget A New Plan to Raise Taxes on 35,000 Working Maine Families With 65,000 Children On Wednesday, the US Senate is expected to vote on two opposing tax proposals that would result in very different outcomes for low-income working Mainers. One, by […] Joel Johnson Posted July 24, 2012 Tags Children, Federal, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget Immigrants: Fueling Maine's Economy The nonpartisan, New-York-based Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) reports that rather than being a drag on our economy, immigrants actually help grow it and by remarkably large amounts. […] Jody Harris Posted July 11, 2012 Tags Economy, Immigration, Jobs