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Gov. Janet Mills last week announced a wide-ranging strategy to channel $1.13 billion in federal funds into Maine's economic comeback.
Her Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is aimed at three goals — immediate economic recovery from the pandemic, long-term economic growth and infrastructure revitalization. More specifically, the plan invests heavily in innovation for heritage industries, job creation and training and support for small business and startups.
The proposal is based on the 10-year economic program she announced in December 2019, as well as the Governor's Economic Recovery Plan that was drawn up by a 48-member committee last year. A major conclusion of that committee was that Maine needed more money from the federal government to achieve long-term recovery.
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Gov. Janet Mills last week announced a wide-ranging strategy to channel $1.13 billion in federal funds into Maine's economic comeback.
Her Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is aimed at three goals — immediate economic recovery from the pandemic, long-term economic growth and infrastructure revitalization. More specifically, the plan invests heavily in innovation for heritage industries, job creation and training and support for small business and startups.
The proposal is based on the 10-year economic program she announced in December 2019, as well as the Governor's Economic Recovery Plan that was drawn up by a 48-member committee last year. A major conclusion of that committee was that Maine needed more money from the federal government to achieve long-term recovery.
Employers need to raise wages and benefits if they want people to come back to work and stop complaining.. pay a living wage and employees will come..
What the governor needs to do to insure the economic growth of our state is to open it up and let it get back to business. We need to stop the added money to unemployment so people will legitimately look for and accept jobs and get back to work. Living off the state and the federal government is not sustainable. We need more people back to work and businesses open for business without all of the current restrictions.
The poll question and the governor's actual plans are too vague. What the pandemic showed us is that access to the internet is our states most serious impediment to growth and that should be at the top of any economic development plan until the entire state has the same access as we do to power and phone.
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Craig Wetmore
Don't call that a plan! It is a pig in a poke. That means that something is sold or bought without the buyer knowing its true nature or value, especially when buying without inspecting the item beforehand. The majority of the money will go to increasing the size of the government for oversight, and those jobs do not go away after the work is done.