Newly Elected Governors Support Expanding Early Childhood Programs
While many states are still finalizing the vote counts, it is clear that Americans elected 20 new governors and re-elected 16 incumbent governors last night. Many of these elected leaders ran on a...
View Article6 New Governors Who Will Lead the Way on Climate Action
Climate action was on the ballot in yesterday’s election. By electing candidates who ran on platforms to protect the planet for future generations, voters picked the environment as a winning issue. In...
View ArticleFast Facts: Economic Security for Women and Families in Maine
This fact sheet contains a correction. Click here to view other state fact sheets in this series. Lawmakers in Maine must do better to ensure all women and families have quality reproductive health...
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Redesigning High School: Local Perspectives From Schools and Districts
Introduction and summary Oyster reefs, once covering more than 220,000 acres of the Hudson River estuary, are functionally extinct in New York Harbor. The Billion Oyster Project (BOP) intends to turn...
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Strikes Driving Change in States With Lowest-Paid Teachers
Just one year after several high-profile teacher walkouts began across the United States, teachers in multiple cities and states are once again protesting and going on strike to demand better working...
View ArticleThe Impacts of Climate Change and the Trump Administration’s...
This fact sheet contains a correction. Just in the past three years, the Trump administration has attempted to roll back at least 95 environmental rules and regulations to the detriment of the...
View ArticleHow an Incomplete Census Hurts Mainers
Right now, the U.S. census is under threat. And unless the U.S. Senate’s COVID-19 relief bill contains an extension of the deadline to complete the census, Mainers will pay the price—for the next...
View ArticleStrategies To Build Worker Power in Maine
Introduction and summary Maine faces several overlapping challenges—including low wages, economic inequality, pay gaps across race and gender, and a political system that too often bends to the will...
View ArticleMaine Needs the American Rescue Plan
Maine’s economy is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic recession. More than a year has passed since the first coronavirus case was detected in the United States, and...
View Article5 Discussions That Shaped the Justice Reform Movement in 2020
During summer 2020, the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many other Black Americans sparked a national dialogue around the failings of the U.S. criminal justice system. People...
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