Maine-based economic policy analyst. British-American, recovering historian.
Posts are my own views, not my organization's.
James Myall
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📈📉Trumponomics in 2 charts. What do Musk's skyrocketing wealth and your stagnant wages have in common? They're both the result of Trump's policy choices. While Musk is about to become the world's first trillionaire, 1.5 yrs of wage growth has been completely wiped off the books for the rest of us.
I do think Platner probably comes out well if you use a different methodology; I just like to see people using the right numbers.
Increasing housing supply is only part of solving the housing affordability crisis. Policymakers should pursue both housing supply expansion and rental assistance expansion simultaneously, rather than waiting for supply increases before helping people afford housing. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.)
Why?
ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
Maine Center for Economic Policy
James Myall
The raw vote total is not a very meaningful statistic when not only has the population grown a lot since 1918, but we basically doubled the electorate two years ago by opening up the primaries to independents.
www.mainepublic.org/politics/202...
So glad we made statewide policy based on a local project that might well be dead in the water.
www.sunjournal.com/2026/06/11/p...
“Some [insurers] also cited the expiration of the enhanced federal premium tax credits which is shifting the risk pool of consumers who purchase insurance.” #mepolitics
www.mainepublic.org/health/2026-...
“The lack of taxes, the lack of investment, can take the form of all manner of imposition, from a county dump that is too expensive for people to use to inadequate reproductive health care, to never knowing if your vote will be counted.” #mepolitics
newrepublic.com/article/2117...
MaineCare is good, and we should have more of it. #mepolitics
www.mecep.org/blog/how-mai...
