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The non-profit 'Presente Maine' sets up bi-weekly solidarity food pantries for anyone in need, especially for Hispanic community members and other immigrants.
A proposal to expand MaineCare to approximately 5,000 immigrants
Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits. Share Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, looks to undo a decision made by former ...
Updated April 15 Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits. Share Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, looks to undo a decisio...
Read Article Thirty years after Bates College decided to devote Martin Luther King Jr. Day to issues of racial justice instead of its ordinary class schedule, it held what its president called the college’s “first-ever, and hopefully last, fully remote” celebration to reach students scattered across the world by a raging pandemic. President Clayton Spencer kicked off a daylong series of speeches, seminars, debates, podcasts, dances and more Monday with a call for the college community “to reflect consciously and intensively on what we owe our students and what we owe the world.” Wi...