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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 […]

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Maine’s Private Sector . . . 2010

Last week the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released their preliminary 2010 personal income data (pdf) (which includes revisions to previous years). The chart below shows the […]

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Private Sector in Other States

In my previous blog, I showed how per capita and per household income varied between Maine and New Hampshire.  However, some folks may dismiss this as one special case where […]

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Maine’s Private Sector Sets New Low

Today the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released new personal income data for the first quarter of 2010.  Unfortunately, this brings more bad news for Mainers.  As […]

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