The Cost of Doing Nothing: Maine’s Pension Payments are Crowding Out Other Spending
Download the Report (PDF) | Maine’s annual public pension payment is on the threshold of explosive growth. Unlike other states, Maine has a Constitutional requirement to fully fund the pensions […]
Read More →MECEP’s Playground Politics
Remember that kid in elementary school you just couldn’t stand? The one who did better than you in class, had more friends or got to sit with the popular group […]
Read More →Balancing Maine’s state budget? Follow the money…
Two years ago, the Maine Heritage Policy Center released a report titled “Where the Money Is: The Fastest-Growing Programs in Maine Government, FY 2000—FY 2009.” For that report, we used […]
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