Positioning for success | Despite the variables, Maine's key industries can prosper with three types of investments

The economic and demographic challenges Maine faces today are serious: a rapidly aging population and work force; the slowest population growth in the nation; below average educational attainment, particularly relative to our New England neighbors; and a widening gap between urban and rural rates of growth and levels of prosperity. On top of these local challenges, Maine also faces the national and even international forces of slow recovery from the recession caused by collapse of the housin ...