Testimony: Unchaining the Minimum Wage from CPI
Testimony in Support of LD 1580: “An Act to Help Maine Small Businesses with Increasing Costs by Removing the Annual Cost-of-living Adjustment for the Minimum Wage” Senator Tipping, Representative Roeder, […]
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Lockdowns devastated the poor, not the virus
A new Harvard analysis of various data points throughout the pandemic shows that poor Americans, those earning under $27,000 a year, have suffered the most over the past year and […]
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Growth vs. Gimmicks Part I: Forecasting an uncertain economic future
Long-term Growth vs. Short-term Gimmicks is a seven part series examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Maine’s economy, the corresponding effects on the state’s biennial budget, and reforms […]
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Understanding the economic damage caused in 2020
The economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, exacerbated by the response of many state governors, is just beginning to be understood. As public health officials fixated on a […]
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MECEP’s Shoddy Defense of Minimum Wage Hike Ignores Basic Research Methods
Earlier this year, the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-wing think tank, published an article written by its budget and education analyst, James Myall. The piece, entitled “Minimum Wage […]
Read More →The Circumstance is Our Own Making
Recently, the New England Public Policy Institute released a new report called, “How Does New Hampshire Do It? An Analysis of Spending and Revenues in the Absence of a Broad-based […]
Read More →Maine’s Private Sector . . . 2nd Quarter 2010
Today the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released new personal income data for the second quarter of 2010 and revisions for the past couple of years. As […]
Read More →The Arrival of Demographic Winter in Maine Gets Closer
Last week the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau released new age, sex and race data for July 1, 2009 by state. The data shows that the arrival of Demographic […]
Read More →2009 County Population Estimates
In February I showed a presentation at our monthly Bangor and Portland lunches that showed Maine lost population for the first time since the 1960s. Recently the U.S. Department of […]
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