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{"title":"Circular Food Systems in Maine: Findings from an Interdisciplinary Study of Food Waste Management","authors":"Skyler Horton, Hannah Nadeau, A. Flynn, Taylor R. Patterson, Shayla Rose Kleisinger, Brieanne Berry","doi":"10.53558/dbqb8487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/dbqb8487","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores challenges and opportunities for reducing food waste in Maine through five distinct, yet interrelated, case studies. Our research focuses on how Maine might create and support a more circular food system that can reduce waste and promote the use of surplus food in agricultural and industrial processes. This stakeholder-engaged research identifies potential policy interventions across scales, but also highlights the need for more interdisciplinary research opportunities for students. Our research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and our team members represent diverse academic backgrounds, including nursing, the human dimensions of climate change, environmental engineering, ecology and environmental sciences, biomedical engineering, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary team acts as a model for future groups interested in finding long-term answers to problems that require complex understanding and analysis.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45060878","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":"Health Status and Access to Care among Maine’s Low-Income Childless Adults: Implications for State Medicaid Expansion","authors":"Zachariah Croll, E. Ziller","doi":"10.53558/drmb1600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/drmb1600","url":null,"abstract":"The Affordable Care Act allows states to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income childless adults with income at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Following a 2017 statewide referendum, Maine began enrolling eligible residents in expanded Medicaid in January 2019. While prior research suggests that Maine’s low-income childless adults may face health problems and barriers to accessing services, their health status has not been well documented. The rollout and ongoing implementation of Maine’s Medicaid expansion may be hampered by incomplete information on the characteristics and health status of the low-income childless adult population. This study examines demographic characteristics, health status, and access to care among Maine’s low-income childless adults and offers recommendations to policymakers, providers, and other stakeholders working to implement Medicaid expansion and address the health needs of this vulnerable population","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46007072","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":"What Is “Too Cold?” Recess and Physical Education Weather Policies in Maine Elementary Schools","authors":"Lauren Jacobs, A. Hansen, Christopher J. Nightingale, Robert Lehnard","doi":"10.53558/ivib5420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/ivib5420","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigated weather policies concerning outdoor recess and physical education in Maine elementary schools. Data were gathered through a statewide survey of Maine elementary school principals, interviews, and an analysis of existing policies and 10 years of historic weather data. Survey data revealed a significant correlation between geographic location and minimum cutoff temperature for outdoor recess. No relationship was found between minimum cutoff temperatures and poverty levels. There were substantial differences between the reported number of missed outdoor recess days and the estimated weather data numbers. The findings of this research are important for three reasons. First, it uncovered the vast differences in weather policies for outdoor recess and physical education in Maine. Second, there appears to be a gap in understanding about the actual number of missed outdoor recess days per year. Third, these findings may help administrators understand how changes to recess policies could increase outdoor time for students. O play and exercise are often considered ubiquitous parts of childhood, found in every environment in which children move: playing in the backyard at home, riding a bicycle around a neighborhood, swinging at a playground at school, building forts in the woods. It seems to be innately understood, though perhaps not always fully respected: children need to move and play outside. This study explored some of the policy barriers and facilitators that affect students’ outdoor time in Maine elementary schools. Before we launch into the findings and implications of that study, we will set the stage with background about the benefits of and affordances for outdoor physical activity in youth in the United States. BACKGROUND—GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY! A often lament that “kids these days do not go out and play enough.” Although these refrains may be colored by nostalgia, they are unfortunately backed up by research. Indeed, kids these days are not active enough. Even though the benefits of adequate physical activity are well understood, only 42 percent of 6to 11-year-old children in the United States meet the recommended daily levels of physical activity (Troiano et al. 2008). The causes of this population-level insufficiency in physical activity levels are complex. A variety of influences including environmental factors (Skala et al. 2012), school policies (Turner, Chriqui, and Chaloupka 2013), geography (Turner, Chaloupka, and Slater 2012), and social relationships (Stanley, Boshoff, and Dollman 2012) have all been correlated with rates of daily physical activity in US children. It is clear that there are numerous barriers to sufficient daily physical activity in children despite its well-understood importance. Since the benefits of physical activity are well established and concern about inadequate levels is prevalent, research has turned to the question of how to increase physical activity at both population and individual","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70610714","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 Independent Party Panacea?","authors":"Daniel M. Shea","doi":"10.53558/fxcx6845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/fxcx6845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70607280","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":"Twenty-First-Century Language Education at the University of Maine: A Road Map","authors":"Gisela Hoecherl-Alden","doi":"10.53558/yads4072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/yads4072","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Maine Flagship Match program is designed to recruit students from neighboring states and offset enrollment declines. However, language faculty retrenchment at the university a decade ago, combined with the effective doubledegree programs with languages, STEM, and other subjects that other regional flagships offer and recent changes in New England’s K–12 graduation options, makes it harder for UMaine to attract high-performing students. If the university wants to compete with others in New England and attract students who focus on global professional issues, it has an opportunity it cannot afford to miss. Adapting one of the language education models other universities have successfully implemented may be the way to move forward in the twenty-first century, making the University of Maine an important regional player. Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt (The limits of my language form the limits of my world) –Ludwig Wittgenstein","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70615459","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":"Attracting New Maine Residents: The Effects of Educational Attainment and Age on Interstate Mobility","authors":"Paul Leparulo","doi":"10.53558/haoe2868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/haoe2868","url":null,"abstract":"MAINE POLICY REVIEW • Vol. 28, No. 2 • 2019 Appendix 1 Attracting New Maine Residents: The Effects of Educational Attainment and Age on Interstate Mobility by Paul Leparulo APPENDIX I use a regression model to estimate the economic and statistical significance between educational attainment and interstate mobility. The particular type of regression (probit model) is designed for situations where the outcome variable is binary rather than continuous. In this case, the outcome variable represents whether an individual made an interstate move and the regressions yield the predicted probability of a move. More specifically, the regression model examines the potential relationships between moving and such variables as bachelor’s degree holder, age and homeownership. Age and homeownership are included as control variables as they are correlated with both the likelihood of moving and educational attainment. To more accurately model these relationships, I allow for nonlinearities in the relationship between moving and age and include interaction terms. The regression output of primary importance is the marginal effect of having at least a four-year degree on the propensity to make an interstate move. The marginal effect quantifies the causal relationship between these variables. I focus on the average marginal effect (AME), which is the average of all marginal effects across all observations, (i.e., the average effect of having at least a four-year degree on the probability of an interstate move for all 23to 55-year-olds in the restricted sample), and the marginal effect for persons of a representative age (e.g., the marginal effect of having at least a four-year degree for the average 25-year-old). From this regression model I am also able to produce the predicted probabilities of an interstate move for an average individual of a representative age.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70610571","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 Hobby Lobby Case and Arguments around an Equal Rights Amendment","authors":"M. Archer","doi":"10.53558/itas9826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/itas9826","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70611077","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":"Not Ready for Prime Time: A Response to “Universal Basic Income: Policy Options at National, State, and Local Levels”","authors":"Dave Canarie","doi":"10.53558/yxsm3015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/yxsm3015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42571254","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: Looking at Maine’s Recurring Issues","authors":"L. Silka","doi":"10.53558/vsur7913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/vsur7913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70614824","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":"Using Cooperation Science to Strengthen Maine’s Local Food Economy","authors":"Afton Hupper, Sujan Chakraborty, Timothy M. Waring","doi":"10.53558/goxy7199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/goxy7199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42477979","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}