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Coalition Warns Legislature Not to End Same Day Voting
In: Civil Rights|Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby|Photos
27 May 2011Portland – A diverse coalition of advocates for seniors, students, and women have a special Memorial Day weekend message for lawmakers: Leave Maine’s voting laws alone. The Maine House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on a proposal, sponsored by Speaker of the House Robert Nutting and Secretary of State Charles Summers, that [...]
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Integrity?
In: Charlotte Warren|Helpful Links|Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby
26 May 2011Your voting rights are under attack! Right now, the Maine Legislature is considering LD 1376, “An Act To Preserve the Integrity of the Voter Registration and Election Process.” Integrity? Don’t be fooled by the misleading title of this bill. LD 1376 does nothing but limit Maine voters’ access to their fundamental right to vote. LD [...]
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Put Focus Where It’s Needed
19 May 2011Adults need jobs. Teens need success in school to make a good living down the road. Statement of Laura Harper Director of Public Policy, Maine Women’s Lobby “Last night the Maine House passed an amended version of L.D. 516, a roll back on teen work hour protections. The bill increases the hours teens can work [...]
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- Tags: child labor, L.D. 516
Equal Pay Day: Keeping an Eye on Augusta
In: Equal Pay|Fair Pay|Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby
12 Apr 2011It’s Equal Pay Day! What’s that? This day represents the amount of time into 2011 it took women in the United States to work (600 extra hours!) to catch up with what men earned in 2010. Well, I hate to state the obvious but, it has been a long time since January 1st. While working [...]
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New Bill Would Gut Child Labor Protections: Second Bill Would Reduce Wages and Eliminate Hour Protections
29 Mar 2011Augusta – Shortly after lawmakers in the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee voted to roll back work hour protections for teen workers, another bill was introduced that would go even farther. “L.D. 1346 constitutes an unprecedented roll back of Maine’s child labor laws. It would put the future of Maine’s young women and [...]
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Children’s Health Law Attacked by Chemical Industry: Moms, Business Owners, Doctors, and Scientists Urge Lawmakers to Keep Kid-Safe Products Act Intact
In: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine|BPA|Maine State House|Maine Women's Policy Center|Reproductive Health|safe cosmetics
29 Mar 2011(AUGUSTA) The battle over efforts to reduce children’s exposure to toxic chemicals heated up significantly today with a public hearing on LD 1129, a bill that would gut Maine’s popular Kid-Safe Products Act. At first blush, Friday’s unanimous committee vote to replace bisphenol-A (BPA) in reusable food and beverage containers seemed to point to a [...]
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What Would Frances Perkins Say?
28 Mar 2011Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in which 146 people, many of them teen girls, were burned or jumped to their deaths because of a fire made fatal by inadequate workplace protections. The doors to the factory were locked. Also Friday, more than one hundred people commemorated that fire by [...]
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The Governor’s roll-back agenda is now reaching into the most basic protections for kids – child labor. No kidding. L.D. 516 would permit employers to hire teen workers and schedule them for unlimited hours during the school year. Representatives from Governor LePage’s Department of Labor testified in favor of a bill to roll-back wage and [...]
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Maine Women’s Lobby Opposes Irresponsible Budget Cuts: Warns that Maine women and children likely to bear burden of shortsighted budget
In: Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby|Maine Women's Policy Center|T.A.N.F
8 Mar 2011-Media Release- Augusta – At a meeting of the Appropriations Committee, the Maine Women’s Lobby voiced concerns that Governor LePage’s proposed budget would significantly destabilize Maine families. The budget proposal includes irresponsible cuts to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the General Assistance Program (GA). Increased food insecurity and higher rates of homelessness are only [...]
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- Tags: budget, LePage, Maine Can Do better
Swearing in Day…
1 Dec 2010Today is the day when the new legislature is sworn in, and with the news that the new leadership is considering eliminating the Labor Committee, it is quite an exciting one at that! If you want up-to-the-minute news on what’s going on at the State House, stick with us! Our rock star Lobbyist, Laura Harper, [...]
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