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Maine’s legislature will consider three bills this session aimed at improving Maine’s system for representing criminal defendants who can’t afford to pay…

We speak with Bates College sociology professor Francesco Duina about his new book, Broke and Patriotic, and why the poor don’t rise up and demand more…

LEWISTON, Maine — Seniors are typically the least likely age group to be chronically poor, under the federal government's official formula for measuring…

WARREN, Maine — Earlier this month, a legislative panel looking at affordable housing in Maine went public with its findings. The story is a sobering…

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…

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…