Taxes Matter XIV: Government Employment is Bad for Economic Growth
Today, MHPC released a new study on state government employment that finds Maine has too many state jobs when compared to the national average. The obvious problem is that Maine […]
Read More →New Hampshire’s Business Enterprise Tax
Two month’s ago, we had William Ardinger from New Hampshire speak to our monthly Dimillo’s luncheon. Mr. Ardinger is a co-architect of New Hampshire’s Business Enterprise Tax and he wrote […]
Read More →Maine State Government Employment
Read the full report | In the private sector, productivity is defined as the sum of all goods and services produced (as measured by Gross Domestic Product) divided by the […]
Read More →Portsmouth Herald: Baldacci’s Maine school consolidation idea unravels
A couple of weeks ago, the Brunswick Times Record became one of the few major papers to editorialize against the state’s school system consolidation plan. Today, the Portsmouth Herald joins […]
Read More →BDN – Greenville’s small school a key to its community
The BDN features a very good front page article this morning about how well the Greenville school has done despite its small size. Check out these statistics from the article: […]
Read More →Volunteer-Staffed, Free Clinics Help the Uninsured
In all the talk of universal coverage, few admit that a Medicaid card often does little to increase access to health care. However, volunteer-staffed free clinics are doing just that […]
Read More →Taxes Matter XIII: Tax Planning
One tired theme we constantly hear in Maine is that “taxes do not matter” to businesses. Economics tells us that taxes are a cost of doing business–and all costs matter. […]
Read More →Why are we consolidating schools again?
The Bangor Daily ran a nice piece yesterday about our recent report on school district size and student achievement. In criticizing the report, though, Department of Education spokesman David Connerty-Marin […]
Read More →Maine’s Laptop Program is Improving Student Writing? Not so fast…
Read the full report | On October 24, 2007, the Maine Education Policy Research Institute at the University of Southern Maine released a report which claimed that the state’s five-year-old […]
Read More →New England Economic Indicators
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston just released its October 2007 issue of their New England Economic Indicators. After looking over the data, I noticed several disturbing trends in Maine’s […]
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