Decoding the Budget
Like people throughout Maine, the partners of Maine Can Do Better believe in working together for the common good. We know that Maine's prosperity depends on the strength of our public structure -- our laws, our schools and universities, our public health and safety agencies, our roads and bridges, and our natural resources. Maine's core is the machinery that propels our economy, and must be responsibly managed and maintained to ensure the health and vitality of Maine communities, Maine families, and Maine people, now and into the future.
The Maine Can Do Better Coalition believes in taking a balanced approach to Maine's fiscal issues by investing in our communities and families. Learn more...
MCDB Budget Rally 2010
On January 12th more than 500 coalition members and concerned citizens flooded the State House Hall of Flags urging Maine's elected leaders to take a balanced approach to the budget crisis. Click here to see more photos.
Budget Rally 2010
On January 12th, 2010, more than 500 Maine Can Do Better coalition members packed the Augusta State House, urging elected officials to take a more balanced approach to the state budget - one that includes revenues in addition to cuts. Christopher St. John, Executive Director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, delivered this speech.
View more videos...Urge Senator Snowe and Senator Collins to Protect Maine Families:
Congress is expected to act this week or next on the bill, H.R. 4213 (known as the "Extenders bill") which extends enhanced federal funding for state Medicaid programs for six months, along with extending unemployment benefits and COBRA subsidies for health insurance through the end of 2010.
Maine is depending on this funding. Our legislature finalized the state budget with the expectation that the extension of increased Medicaid funds would easily pass through Congress.
If the Extenders bill doesn't pass, the Governor would be forced to make millions in deeper spending cuts, further jeopardizing health care services for families and important health care jobs in Maine.
We can't let this happen. Please email Senators Snowe and Collins TODAY to urge them to support H.R. 4213. Their support is critical to helping to protect vital health services and health care jobs in Maine. H.R. 4213 is needed to keep Maine on the road to economic recovery.
Hundreds Rally to Urge Senators Snowe and Collins to Support Maine Jobs and Famlies
More than one-hundred Maine Can Do Better coalition members gathered in Portland’s Lobsterman’s Park yesterday, calling on Maine’s U.S. Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, to support the H.R. 4213, the Jobs Bill that has stalled in the Senate.
“Failure to pass the Jobs Bill would have devastating consequences to critical health services, unemployed workers, school funding, jobs, and Maine’s economic recovery,” said Ana Hicks of Maine Equal Justice Partners, who spoke at the event, “Maine cannot afford to lose any more jobs.”
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Advocate Urge Congress to Extend Unemployment Benefits, Health Care Assistance, and Aid to States:From the Maine Center for Economic Policy "AUGUSTA — Advocates supporting the extension of critical federal support for economic recovery today called on the members of Maine’s Congressional Delegation to continue their support for important federal assistance to state Medicaid programs to help states, like Maine facing significant fiscal crisis, as well as for maintaining needed health care and unemployment benefits for their people. Read more... Past Headlines:Maine
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