Zoning Regulations Are Driving Up Portland Rents
Renting in Portland remains unaffordable for many of its residents. Instead of saving up money for new clothes, a new car, or a much deserved vacation, many Portlanders are trapped in […]
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Minimum Wage Advocates Disregard Evidence
As The Maine Wire has repeatedly shown here, here and here, proponents of a minimum wage increase in Maine seem more concerned with soundbites than responsible public policy. The Maine People’s […]
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To Help Businesses Thrive, Eliminate Red Tape
Business owners from around the state have one nearly-unanimous complaint: excessive regulation is killing innovation, costing jobs, and reducing growth. Recently, as President Obama approached his final year in office, […]
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Want to help the poor? Reform Maine’s health care system
How the Free Market Can Make Health Care More Affordable For Everyone One of the primary burdens poor Mainers confront is the constant struggle to remain healthy. Unable to afford […]
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The Future of Drug-Testing Programs in Maine
After a thoroughly objective evaluation of the many aspects and implications surrounding state TANF drug-testing programs, this series has reached its conclusion. This comes with perfect timing, as one of […]
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How Judicial Activism Devastated TANF Drug-Testing Programs
As promised in part four, this fifth installment explores how the courts have made it impossible for states to implement effective drug-testing programs for TANF recipients. In 1999, Michigan became […]
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Why Have Past State TANF Drug-Testing Programs Been So Ineffective?
One of the most common criticisms lauded against state TANF drug-testing programs is their consistent failure to effectively identify sufficient proportions of substance abusers within the number of welfare recipients […]
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The Irony of Opposing Welfare Drug Screenings
There is a heavy dose of irony in the efforts of those who actively oppose policies for drug screening/testing programs for welfare recipients. The road these “defenders of the poor” […]
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Responding to the Criticisms of TANF Drug Testing
Following the first phase of screenings in Maine’s new drug-testing program for TANF recipients with prior felony drug convictions, state and national media outlets unleashed a wave of criticism directed […]
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Clarifying Exactly How Maine’s New Drug-Testing Program for TANF Recipients Works
This is the first installment of a weekly series focused on discussing how drug-testing programs for TANF recipients benefit the state, taxpayers, and most of all the recipients themselves. It […]
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