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{"title":"The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maine’s Labor Market and Workforce","authors":"M. McInerney, Erin K. Fenton","doi":"10.53558/jwuq1122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/jwuq1122","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses a variety of data sources to examine the pandemic’s impact on the labor market in Maine, first by putting it in the context of past recessions, then by assessing telework suitability across occupations","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41651739","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 Response of the Maine Food System to the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"JG Malacarne, Jason Lilley, Nancy McBrady","doi":"10.53558/hdxw8592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/hdxw8592","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 crisis had an immediate and extensive effect on food systems. Consumers suffered income shocks. Restaurants were forced to close. Wholesale markets for agricultural and seafood products disappeared. Retail food outlets had to balance increased demand, bottlenecks in their ability to resupply, and concerns for the health of their customers. Uncertainty about when these challenges would lessen contributed to the complexity of the decisions facing actors all throughout the system. In this article, we bring together data from various sources to describe the response of the Maine food system to the onset of this crisis. Our descriptive analysis includes the actions, concerns, and adaptations of food producers, consumers, and vendors as they sought to weather and adapt to a challenging situation. The purpose of this analysis is not to second-guess the actions of those who grow, distribute, or consume food in Maine. Rather, it is to better understand how the food system responded to an acute crisis and how to create a more resilient, efficient, and inclusive food system. figure 1: Maine Food System Wages","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47442418","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":"Food Insecurity in Maine Higher Education","authors":"Kim McKeage, F. Wertheim, Sally Slovenski, Sumaya El-Khalidi","doi":"10.53558/rgdk7733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/rgdk7733","url":null,"abstract":"In 2017–2018, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Campus Compact conducted a statewide analysis to assess the extent and subsequent effects of food and housing insecurity within the college student population. A total of 26 higher education institutions (community colleges and private and public four-year colleges and universities) throughout the state of Maine received surveys to investigate food and housing insecurity. This study reports on the findings from the 1,704 completed surveys from 24 of those campuses. We found significant food insecurity among respondents. The results demonstrate how food insecurity relates to institutional, geographic, and student characteristics. We discuss the implications for higher education policy across Maine and practices at individual institutions. secure), to deficits in quantity and quality of the foods consumed (e.g., more low-nutrient, high-calorie processed foods), to the most extreme insecurity, a decrease in the quantity of food consumed (Gaines et al. 2014). Housing insecurity is categorized under a web of challenges, such as the inability to pay rent or utilities or the need to move frequently (Goldrick-Rab et al. 2017). Much of the nation has experienced recovery and relief since the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, but Maine has seen continued high rates of poverty, and hunger continues to harm state residents.2 With the 2020 pandemic and the attendant job losses, this trend is likely to continue. Studies assessing food and housing insecurity within individual college campus communities and other regional locations provide examples of the spectrum of severity, with rates of food and housing insecurity ranging from 14 percent to 56 percent. The University of Alabama, a large public university, identified 14 percent of students as food insecure (Gaines et al. 2014). Results from a large landgrant university in New Hampshire reported approximately 25.2 percent of students as being food insecure, with 17.7 percent of students reporting low food security, and 7.5 percent reporting very low food security (Davidson and Morell 2018). In 2015, an online survey of 4,000 students at ten community colleges across seven states revealed that 52 percent of students were food insecure, 20 percent qualified as hungry, and 52 percent were housing insecure, including 31 percent who were homeless (Goldrick-Rab et al. 2015). Similarly, a later survey among community college students from 70 campuses estimated that 56 percent of respondents were food insecure (low or very low food insecure) (Goldrick-Rab et al. 2017). Food and housing insecurity affects students in several ways. Lack of basic needs, such as sufficient amounts of nutritious foods or a secure location to sleep, directly hinders students’ ability to study, or may indirectly affect their study time if they work long hours to be able to afford food and housing as well as their tuition and fees. Students who are at risk for food and ","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44590941","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":"Moving Upstream: Health and Prosperity During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Lisa Miller, D. Deatrick","doi":"10.53558/mfym2222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/mfym2222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49208463","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":"Gateway to Opportunity: A promising summer youth employment model to address local workforce needs","authors":"Nikki Williams, S. Hawes","doi":"10.53558/ozsb7007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/ozsb7007","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout Maine, employers struggle to find workers with in-demand skills and competencies. Concurrently, work-eligible youth are often unable to find skill-building employment experiences. The Gateway to Opportunity (G2O) program is a comprehensive youth-adult partnership model developed in Portland, Maine, that is designed to address both of these challenges. G2O connects high-school-aged young people with paid, work-based learning projects at Maine-based businesses and nonprofits. The model for this program is based on national best practices and lessons learned from multiple highly successful summer youth employment initiatives led by Brandeis University’s Center for Youth and Communities from 2011 to 2013. This article highlights the development and growth of this program model and explores how innovative workbased learning programs such as G2O are critical for Maine’s workforce and","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48517440","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":"Reflections: Taking the Long View","authors":"L. Silka","doi":"10.53558/uqoh1100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/uqoh1100","url":null,"abstract":"Linda Silka's reflections on the benefits of taking a long view of public policy issues.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70614492","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":"Building Solar Capacity in Maine: The Greater Bangor Solarize Case Study","authors":"Thomas Stone, S. Klein, Kim McKeage","doi":"10.53558/yivw7942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/yivw7942","url":null,"abstract":"Despite being a mature technology with significantly decreasing costs over the last decade and various financial incentives available periodically, solar photovoltaic energy systems currently generate approximately 1 percent of Maine’s electricity. There have been eight Solarize campaigns in Maine, which aimed to increase residentialand commercial-scale solar adoption through group purchasing. In 2017, the Greater Bangor Solarize campaign increased the number of residential solar installations by 63 percent and solar power capacity by 52 percent in the participating towns compared to the previous seven years. We surveyed the Greater Bangor Solarize participants to better understand the motivations, concerns, and barriers to residential solar adoption in central Maine. We find a significant demographic divide exists between the Solarize participants and the general Maine population. We also observe that environmental stewardship and energy security are the primary motivations for considering solar and that overall cost remains the primary concern. Building Solar Capacity in Maine: The Greater Bangor Solarize Case Study by Thomas E. Stone, Sharon J.W. Klein, and Kim K. McKeage","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46757955","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":"Imagining Maine’s Economy in a Postpandemic World","authors":"Stefano Tijerina","doi":"10.53558/bsnd4254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/bsnd4254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41624654","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":"Sustainability of Maine’s Emerging Wine Industry","authors":"M. Murray, Mark N. Haggerty, Stephanie A. Welcomer","doi":"10.53558/EHRP4101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/EHRP4101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48706945","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 University of Maine: Playing All Positions in the Policy Game","authors":"J. Ferrini-Mundy","doi":"10.53558/WXKD3919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/WXKD3919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43777633","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}