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We see lots of paintings of lobster buoys and lobster boats, of pretty farm fields, but what about the men and women who haul the traps and pick the produce in our beautiful state? They’re often invisible. In the current Maine Art Gallery exhibit,...
Let’s rein in the power of corporate giants whose profiteering is hurting Maine workers, families and small businesses.
Economic gains have been undermined by the highest inflation rates in four decades, according to a new report from the Maine Center for Economic Policy.
Maine’s focus on diversity in hiring may have been energized by this year’s national reckoning on race, as a variety of businesses and organizations in the state pledged to make it a priority, but it began with something more prosaic. Historic unemployment among white workers the past several years meant jobs were going unfilled, and, so, attention turned to Maine’s people of color, whose unemployment numbers stubbornly remained in double digits. “Up until this crisis moment, I think there were good intentions, but people didn’t really know they didn’t know,” says Deb Breiting, ...