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This letter comes to you from Maine rather than, as normal, from Washington, D.C. Examining the entrails of federal policy is easier in the imperial city, but one can see better from outside the Beltway how it fails.
What stands out is the Democrats’ corrosive policy of paying people not to work. Like much of the country, Maine is booming and businesses want to hire. In May, the unemployment rate fell to 4.7%, better than the national rate of 5.8%.
But the number is deceptive. Labor force participation fell to 60.1%, slightly worse than the national rate of 60.2%, which itself is below anything since the 1970s. Maine’s participation rate has fallen nearly a point in the year since COVID-19 threw millions out of work. This flatters the unemployment rate because only people looking for jobs are counted, not those who choose to be idle. Young graduates are lolling on the dole from Uncle Sam rather than taking summer jobs before knuckling down to careers in t