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UC faculty urge the university to investigate its relationship with a campus research center run by consulting firm Beacon Economics that has targeted state labor policies.

Far from giving disadvantaged workers a leg up, raising the minimumwage cuts off the bottom rung of the career ladder for manylower-skilled workers.

Maine Voices: Government by referendum is almost always a bad idea Approval of Portland’s rent-control and minimum-wage proposals shows what happens when the public decides issues without asking many hard questions. By Martin JonesSpecial to the Press Herald Share The controversy over a hazardous-duty supplement to the minimum wage required by the recent referendum results in Portland is only a precursor of the harm that voter approval of a higher minimum wage, Green New Deal requirements f...