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Nearly 34,000 Maine children live in households that are below the federal poverty level. As advocates try to assist those families, they've begun to embrace an approach called "two-generation." The idea is to support the needs the children, as well as their parents.
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Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law two bills that supporters say are aimed at reducing poverty in the state.One measure gives more families access to…
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LEWISTON, Maine — Seniors are typically the least likely age group to be chronically poor, under the federal government's official formula for measuring…
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WARREN, Maine — Earlier this month, a legislative panel looking at affordable housing in Maine went public with its findings. The story is a sobering…
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Last spring, a legislative study commission found that while the number of women in the Maine workforce has increased over the past ten years, they still…
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Recent data, released by the U.S. Census Bureau, show poverty in Maine leveling off, statewide, from its peak in the years immediately after the…
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PORTLAND, Maine - The authors of a new report hope it will be a call to action to change the public conversation about how to help the poor. The report…