What is Maine’s Unemployment Rate?
In a previous blog, I showed how Maine’s economic woes are more significantly affecting our younger workers. And while one commenter pointed out that this is not just a Maine […]
Read More →Maine versus New Hampshire XIV: The Personal Income Tax
On January 18, the New Hampshire legislator is taking up a constitutional amendment that would permanently ban a personal income tax in the state. The good news for Maine is […]
Read More →Maine’s Unemployment Rate Highest Among Younger Workers
In my previous blog about Maine’s population growth (or lack thereof), I alluded to data that would highlight the economic woes of Maine’s young people. The chart below is from […]
Read More →Maine’s Population Grows by a Mere 809 People in 2011
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released their first post-census population estimates by state. The goods news is that Maine avoided a third consecutive years of population decline, but barely. The […]
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Raising Taxes for DHHS Budget Would Cost Private Sector Jobs
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services is running a serious budget deficit of an estimated $121 million for this year alone. As lawmakers work to decide how to […]
Read More →New IRS Data Shows Maine Taxpayers Fleeing to Other States
Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released their 2009 estimates of taxpayer migration. This is important because people “voting with their feet” is a barometer of the health of a […]
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Protecting the Integrity of Maine’s Elections: Election-Day Registration in Maine
Free and open elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. A free and open election is one where every vote counts, and no vote is counted as less or more […]
Read More →Maine’s Population Shrinking and Aging
Recently the U.S. Census Bureau released their updated intercensal state population estimates by age and race. These new estimates account for the new population counts as determined by the 2010 population census. […]
Read More →Does Maine Need More Debt?
According to the folks at the Maine Center for Economic Policy the answer is “yes” Maine needs more debt (pdf). They argue that new bonds would create new jobs and that […]
Read More →Maine’s Private Sector . . . 2nd Quarter, 2011
Last week the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released new personal income data for the second quarter of 2011 by state (pdf) and revisions for the past couple of […]
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