Two bills to increase taxes on hardworking Mainers failed to pass at the end of the Maine Legislature’s hectic, marathon…
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With recent reports of staggering numbers of new U.S. unemployment claims–including over 21,000 in Maine alone–the oft-forgotten segments of the…
Earlier this year the legislature passed LD 1324, a bill that creates an 11-person committee to study the feasibility of implementing…
Turn on the local news or pick up a Maine newspaper and it won’t take long for someone to mention…
It is hard to make constitutional sense out of the cacophony of progressive sound bites we hear in Maine on…
Have you ever wondered where the poverty figures you read in the paper or see on the news come from?…
Vehicles are far safer and more reliable than they were nearly a century ago when Maine’s vehicle inspection program was first implemented.
Last month, the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) published a study on the minimum wage in Maine, arguing that its…
The standard objection to increasing the minimum wage is that it will result in more unemployment for low-skilled workers. But…
Speaker of the House Sara Gideon is trying to pull a fast one on Mainers. She is pushing a bill…
Yesterday, The Maine Heritage Policy Center released a new report, “Top 10 Things Keeping Mainers Poor.” Poverty is an issue…
For many families with young children, especially single-parent households, child care is critical to being able work and earn a…
Your barber has to get government permission to cut hair, or risk jail time. In Maine, barbers must be at…
In a BDN column earlier this month, David Farmer attacked the LePage administration and the Department of Health and Human Services…
America’s $700 billion per year welfare system is actually doing more harm than good, and is hurting the very people…
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to…
By Robert Rector and Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation It’s been a pretty big year for welfare—and a new report shows welfare is…