The Maine Department of Labor says federal laws would have to change before it could set up a system to benefit workers who are not covered by state unemployment insurance.
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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.
Gov. Mills’ plan to switch vaccinations to age-based eligibility gets mixed reaction
Organizations representing retailers, restaurants and lodging businesses support a clear vaccine plan but are disappointed that many of their younger workers will still have to wait.
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Kenneth Moulton of York receives a vaccination at the clinic at St. Christopher s Church in York on Wednesday. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Maine’s updated plan to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 based entirely on age drew mixed reactions from industries that had been holding out hope their workers might soon move to the front of line.
Within the state’s hospitality industry, there’s little doubt that a majority of the workers will have to wait till late spring or early summer under the state’s new age-based plan in which those in their 60s will be eligible next week, followed by those 50 and over in April, 40 and over in May, and 30 and over in June. People younger than 30 will