Take Action – Contact Your State Leaders Today
Get engaged by contacting your state leaders today. MHPC’s Action Center is designed for you to easily reach out to the Governor and your state legislators about the issues that […]
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J. Scott Moody To Lead The Maine Heritage Policy Center
The Maine Heritage Policy Center announced today that J. Scott Moody has been named chief executive officer of MHPC. Moody, currently MHPC’s chief economist, will be moving to Maine from […]
Read More →Prescription for Growth: Eliminate Income Taxes
Recently, the Sun Journal published an op-ed titled “Repealing Income Taxes Won’t Help State Economies” written by Carl Davis at the leftist Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). He […]
Read More →MHPC Luncheon Presentation: February 16, 2012
Chris O’neal presented at the MHPC Luncheon in Portland today. Below is his presentation: RPSPresentationMHPC 2012-2-16
Read More →Government Spending and Private Activity
In December, I released a study that showed raising taxes to cover the budget shortfall at the Department of Health and Human Services would cost private sector jobs–or an estimated […]
Read More →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’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 […]
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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