WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering a plan to weed out would-be immigrants who are likely to require public assistance, as well as to deport – when possible – immigrants already living in the United States who depend on taxpayer help, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Washington Post. A second […]
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Municipalities, health care facilities brace for wage hike
AUGUSTA — Municipalities and advocacy groups for home health care and long-term care workers say they’re bracing for the impact of a minimum wage hike approved by Maine voters last fall. Leaders of the health care groups say they will continue to ask the state for increased MaineCare reimbursement rates as the minimum wage inches […]
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Employers seem happy to share job creation credit with Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — From Wal-Mart to General Motors to Amazon, a growing number of the world’s largest companies appear to be trying to get in step with President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that employers hire and keep jobs at home. Trump, in response, has taken to Twitter to signal his approval. “Thank you to General Motors and […]
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U.S. adds 156,000 jobs; unemployment rate rises to 4.7 percent
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 156,000 jobs in December, capping a year of slower but solid hiring and providing the last major snapshot of the economy President-elect Donald Trump will inherit from President Barack Obama. Friday’s report from the Labor Department portrayed a job market that remains durable 7½ years after the recovery from the […]
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Maine unemployment rate creeps up to 3.7 percent in June
PORTLAND — Maine’s unemployment rate has crept upward to 3.7 percent in June. The state Department of Labor says the preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was up from 3.5 percent in May. It is down from 4.4 percent a year ago. The nationwide unemployment rate of 4.9 percent was down from 5 percent in April […]
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U.S. payrolls rise 287,000 in June
America’s job market stirred to life in June as payroll growth accelerated by the most since October after a two-month lull, assuaging fears of broader cutbacks by companies. Payrolls climbed by 287,000 last month, exceeding the highest estimate in a Bloomberg survey, after a revised 11,000 gain in May, a Labor Department report showed Friday. […]
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Survey of Maine businesses finds job vacancies
AUGUSTA — Maine officials say a survey of more than 2,000 businesses in the state shows that a third of them have at least one job opening. The state Department of Labor’s Center for Workforce Research and Information posted the results of the 2015 survey earlier this week. It was sent to 3,400 Maine businesses, […]
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Maine unemployment rate holds steady at 3.4 percent
AUGUSTA — Maine’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.4 percent last month. The state Department of Labor says the number of unemployed people declined by 8,000 over the year to 22,800. The unemployment rate was 4.5 percent a year ago. Maine’s unemployment rate was less than the U.S. rate of 5 percent, which also held […]
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Gov. Paul LePage expects Maine to lose up to 1,500 jobs
BIDDEFORD — Gov. Paul LePage upped his estimate of how many jobs will be lost in Maine in the coming months to as many as 1,500. LePage’s comments, made during a public town hall meeting Tuesday at Biddeford High School, came about two weeks after he generated days of headlines by claiming a southern Maine company […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says Maine about to lose 900 jobs
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage says that a company in southern Maine is on the verge of shedding 900 jobs, and he suggested that the company is leaving the state. The Republican governor told an audience at a town-hall-style meeting in Orono on Wednesday that he would not name the firm because he is he […]