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Maryland’s child support system, which is supposed to sustain children, is actually hurting some of the state’s neediest families — especially in Baltimore, an investigation by The Baltimore Sun has found. A dysfunctional system has decided that parents in struggling city neighborhoods owe tens of millions of dollars in back child support — a whopping $23 million in one West Baltimore ZIP code alone.

Maine Med urges lawmakers to focus on health care education funding and accountability for those who assault nurses, not rigid staffing ratios.

Maine Med urges lawmakers to focus on health care education funding and accountability for those who assault nurses, not rigid staffing ratios.

The amended collective bargaining agreement covers various paid leave benefits left out of last year’s contract negotiations.

Paid leave benefits will be retroactive to December 2022 so nurses who previously used personal time off or went unpaid to cover their leaves will be reimbursed, according to Maine Medical Center.

The contract includes 15% across-the-board wage increases over three years, starting with 7% in the first year of the agreement.

The tentative agreement will be voted on next week and is the first contract negotiated by the nurses union since it was formed last year.

Dozens of unionized nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland picketed Wednesday morning outside the hospital amid contract negotiations that have gone on for eight months.

Our View: Maine Med nurses vote to have a voice With a new union, hospital employees will make themselves heard on working conditions and patient care. By The Editorial Board Share National Nurses’ Week is a time when members of the public raise their voices to thank the men and women at the heart of the health care system. This year’s festivities were kicked off when the state’s biggest group of nurses broke out something new – a voice of their own. In a clear and convincing 1,001 to...