S. Goan, E. Way, Erin Cinelli, Donald E. Carpenter
{"title":"Building Youth Resiliency and Aspirations During a Crisis: Lessons Learned from Maine’s Aspirations Incubator During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"S. Goan, E. Way, Erin Cinelli, Donald E. Carpenter","doi":"10.53558/jacf7046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/jacf7046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45536350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forced Hand: Educational Entrepreneurship and the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"K. Rybakova, J. Pare","doi":"10.53558/wcmg3165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/wcmg3165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43131235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking forward while being pushed back: How accurate were economic forecasts for Maine during the pandemic?","authors":"A. Crawley, A. Hallowell","doi":"10.53558/xnee1637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/xnee1637","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47180975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic has stricken American workers deeply, causing widespread layoffs and accelerating the longer-term disappearance of jobs available to workers with limited skills and education. As a result, its impact has exacerbated inequalities of income and opportunity. A long-term strategy for postpandemic economic development in Maine will require building bridges from existing skill sets to jobs offering greater employment opportunity and security. Existing research shows that when income and security are addressed as a shared responsibility on the part of workers, employers, and taxpayers, economic growth can expand opportunity and reduce inequality. Maine can take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to restructure the institutional environment in ways that will align the incentives of the public and private sectors and will achieve these goals. and demographic distribution of deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and opioid overdoses, which have been highest among white males in the regions hardest hit by the loss of decent-paying jobs. The pandemic has deepened these trends. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 12-month period from May 2019 to May 2020 saw the highest number of deaths from drug overdoses ever recorded in a one-year span. The pandemic, however, was not the only factor in this increase; overdose deaths were rising in 2019 as well.1 Still, the COVID-19 pandemic has burdened the most vulnerable members of society with even heavier economic and psychological stress. Low-wage workers compose a large share of the country’s workforce—44 percent as of January 2020—and have been more severely affected by the pandemic than higherearning workers (Escobari et al. 2019).2 Layoffs threaten their security in several ways, including the loss of housing and of health insurance (Garfield et al. 2020). Even before the pandemic, about a quarter of those living in rental housing were paying more than half their gross monthly income on rent. By January 2021, about 20 percent of all renters had fallen behind on their rent payments; 40 percent of children in households that rented faced difficulty with food, housing, or both (CBPP 2021; Dougherty 2021). Approximately 30 million people work in the retail and hospitality fields, almost 20 percent of the total US labor force. Most of those people work at wage levels below the median wage (77 percent in retail, 93 percent in hospitality). These are the most vulnerable jobs: wages are low, health insurance coverage is sparse, and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to heavy job losses. Whereas from January 2020 to January 2021, the unemployment rate rose from 4 percent to 6 percent for all workers, it only rose from 2.5 percent to 3.4 percent for people working in financial services but from 5.9 percent to 15.9 percent for those in leisure and hospitality (US BLS 2021). Low-wage workers are the least likely to be able to switch to online work; their educational levels tend to be low; and they a
{"title":"Inequality and Workforce Development in Maine in the Post-COVID-19 Environment","authors":"T. Remington","doi":"10.53558/vhcd4408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vhcd4408","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has stricken American workers deeply, causing widespread layoffs and accelerating the longer-term disappearance of jobs available to workers with limited skills and education. As a result, its impact has exacerbated inequalities of income and opportunity. A long-term strategy for postpandemic economic development in Maine will require building bridges from existing skill sets to jobs offering greater employment opportunity and security. Existing research shows that when income and security are addressed as a shared responsibility on the part of workers, employers, and taxpayers, economic growth can expand opportunity and reduce inequality. Maine can take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to restructure the institutional environment in ways that will align the incentives of the public and private sectors and will achieve these goals. and demographic distribution of deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and opioid overdoses, which have been highest among white males in the regions hardest hit by the loss of decent-paying jobs. The pandemic has deepened these trends. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 12-month period from May 2019 to May 2020 saw the highest number of deaths from drug overdoses ever recorded in a one-year span. The pandemic, however, was not the only factor in this increase; overdose deaths were rising in 2019 as well.1 Still, the COVID-19 pandemic has burdened the most vulnerable members of society with even heavier economic and psychological stress. Low-wage workers compose a large share of the country’s workforce—44 percent as of January 2020—and have been more severely affected by the pandemic than higherearning workers (Escobari et al. 2019).2 Layoffs threaten their security in several ways, including the loss of housing and of health insurance (Garfield et al. 2020). Even before the pandemic, about a quarter of those living in rental housing were paying more than half their gross monthly income on rent. By January 2021, about 20 percent of all renters had fallen behind on their rent payments; 40 percent of children in households that rented faced difficulty with food, housing, or both (CBPP 2021; Dougherty 2021). Approximately 30 million people work in the retail and hospitality fields, almost 20 percent of the total US labor force. Most of those people work at wage levels below the median wage (77 percent in retail, 93 percent in hospitality). These are the most vulnerable jobs: wages are low, health insurance coverage is sparse, and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to heavy job losses. Whereas from January 2020 to January 2021, the unemployment rate rose from 4 percent to 6 percent for all workers, it only rose from 2.5 percent to 3.4 percent for people working in financial services but from 5.9 percent to 15.9 percent for those in leisure and hospitality (US BLS 2021). Low-wage workers are the least likely to be able to switch to online work; their educational levels tend to be low; and they a","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44971417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects for a Rim County Renaissance: Pandemic as Economic Opportunity","authors":"D. Vail","doi":"10.53558/vffs1496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vffs1496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41337351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science in Maine: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Niles Parker, K. Dickerson","doi":"10.53558/vqvs8941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vqvs8941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46687953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great London Plague of 1665 and the US COVID-19 Pandemic Experience Compared","authors":"F. O'Hara","doi":"10.53558/hnrg6559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/hnrg6559","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48199802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Un)precedented: Reflecting on the Early Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"A. Rector","doi":"10.53558/vhrf3680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vhrf3680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46138368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The disruption of the labor market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented. The unemployment rate in February 2020, just before the pandemic spread to the United States, was 3.5 percent nationally and 3.2 percent in Maine; two months later, the unemployment rate jumped to 14.8 percent nationally and 10.4 percent in Maine. Although usually changes in the unemployment rate reliably indicate changes in the health of economy, that was not the case during the COVID-19 pandemic. The harm to the labor market in 2020 was even worse than indicated by the dramatic increase in unemployment. In addition to the unprecedented spike in unemployment, there was an unprecedented decrease in labor force participation. There were also an important increase in absence from work and an important decline in average weekly hours of work among those employed. This article takes an in-depth look at these trends both nationally and in Maine.
{"title":"Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market in 2020","authors":"Philip A. Trostel","doi":"10.53558/jbdw9523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/jbdw9523","url":null,"abstract":"The disruption of the labor market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented. The unemployment rate in February 2020, just before the pandemic spread to the United States, was 3.5 percent nationally and 3.2 percent in Maine; two months later, the unemployment rate jumped to 14.8 percent nationally and 10.4 percent in Maine. Although usually changes in the unemployment rate reliably indicate changes in the health of economy, that was not the case during the COVID-19 pandemic. The harm to the labor market in 2020 was even worse than indicated by the dramatic increase in unemployment. In addition to the unprecedented spike in unemployment, there was an unprecedented decrease in labor force participation. There were also an important increase in absence from work and an important decline in average weekly hours of work among those employed. This article takes an in-depth look at these trends both nationally and in Maine.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48084524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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