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Maine Gov. Mills: Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan Helps Small Businesses & Employees Afford Health Insurance
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AUGUSTA, Maine,
May 27, 2021:
Portland today, Governor
Maine small businesses afford the cost of health insurance for their employees.
As part of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan,
Governor Mills is proposing to create the Small Business Health Care Cost Relief Program. Supported by
$39 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, the program would provide small businesses with short-term financial relief from rising health insurance premiums as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maine small businesses are the backbone of our economy, providing good-paying jobs and important benefits, like health insurance, that support the lives and livelihoods of
Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan Helps Small Businesses & Employees Afford Health Insurance
May 27, 2021
Governor Mills visits Coffee By Design to promote proposal providing financial relief for small businesses and workers
During a visit to Coffee by Design in Portland today, Governor Janet Mills highlighted her proposal through the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to help Maine small businesses afford the cost of health insurance for their employees.
Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Coffee By Design, leads Governor Mills, Commissioner Lambrew, and Superintendent Cioppa on a tour of CBD’s roastery in Portland.
As part of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan, Governor Mills is proposing to create the “Small Business Health Care Cost Relief Program.” Supported by $39 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, the program would provide small businesses with short-term financial relief from rising health insurance premiums as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Valedictorian Skylar Hutchins and Salutatorian Marina Nichols
BANGS – Skylar Hutchins earned valedictorian honors while Marina Nichols will represent Bangs High School’s Class of 2021 as its salutatorian.
Bangs’ graduation is slated for 8 p.m. Friday, May 28 at Memorial Stadium.
Hutchins, the daughter of Brent and Jennifer Hutchins, said of the valedictorian accolade, “I’m very proud to represent as valedictorian. Marina and I both worked hard and competed very hard all four years. It was actually really fun to have that competition going, someone pushing you to be better. I was surprised to be valedictorian, I knew we were really close, so it did surprise me.”
While race- and ethnicity-based economic inequality long predates the pandemic, disparities have widened over the past year, economist Jeff Fuhrer told a Mainebiz virtual forum on Thursday.
Fuhrer, a former top official at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is now executive vice president and chief strategy officer at MassDevelopment, that state s finance and development agency.
In his opening keynote of the Five on the Future discussion, Fuhrer questioned whether the United States is the land of opportunity it purports to be, saying, I d like to believe that s true, but we re pretty far from that.
Backing up that point, he cited 2018 data showing discrepancies in income distribution for Black and Latino families versus white families.