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James Myall
@JamesxMyall
Policy analyst for @MECEP1 and @MECEP_Action. British. Recovering historian. Tweets are personal, not organizational views. Please DM to cite.
Jun 15, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Last week (6/10) @PaulLePage2022 was on the Ray Richardson show and he made a series of bizarre and untrue claims about relief checks, immigration and Medicaid expansion. He’s either totally misinformed or happily spreading lies.

A thread #mepolitics LePage says funding for the $850 relief checks is “based on a forecast” and that “the money is never going to come in” because the economy will go into recession. It’s true that all budgets are made on forecasts. But a big drop is very unlikely…
Oct 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fascinating that the survey also found that ~80% thought RCV was easy to use; similar number understood the process; 76% thought a majority winner was important. Yet the numbers supporting RCV in general much lower, and just 36% wanted to expand its use #mepolitics Those details can be found here

surveyusa.com/client/PollRep…
Oct 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
.@SenSusanCollins, if there’s no systemic racism in Maine, please answer these questions #mepolitics

(Thread) Why have Black Mainers been so much more likely to contract COVID-19 than white Mainers?

blog.mecep.org/2020/06/black-…
Oct 26, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD - Paid sick leave helped reduce COVID-19 infections in the United States by 400 per day. All the more reason for Maine to ensure that its new paid leave law (which comes online in January) is accessible & robustly enforced #mepolitics The underlying study on which this is based found that paid sick time reduced Covid cases by 1 per day for every 1,300 workers who didn’t have paid sick time before. Based on the period 3/8-5/11. The reduction is about 56% compared to control

healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
Oct 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is going around again, so here's some important context to understand the number. The $12,366 does come from an official source (US Current Population Survey) but is almost certainly incorrect. A better source (American Community Survey) puts the increase at $213. #mepolitcs The ACS is the official source for income & poverty numbers because the sample size is much larger than the CPS. ACS samples ~13,000 people in Maine. The CPS's annual economic supplement includes just ~1,200. So the results are much more prone to error.
Jan 21, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Want to tackle racial inequality? State level policies are a good place to start. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of legislation proposed in #Maine that will help level the playing field (thread) #mepolitics #MartinLutherKingJrDay “An Act To Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit in Maine” (LR 163) would increase the size of the state EITC, which goes to low income families. Maine has some the highest poverty rates for POC in the nation, and the EITC is one of the most effective anti poverty programs
Oct 16, 2018 • 20 tweets • 11 min read
1/ A Mary Mayhew thread
The new deputy administrator at CMS overseeing the Medicaid and CHIP programs leaves behind her a trail of devastation in Maine from her tenure at Maine's Dept of Health and Human Services #mepolitics
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Mayhew bitterly opposed Medicaid expansion, in defiance of all the experts and members of the public health community. She even vowed to repeal the voter-approved law if elected governor #mepolitics
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