From the Bangor Daily News, Bangor ME  (3/17)

    A WORKING MOM'S DILEMMA  

                                                     by   Matthew Stone

NOTE:  This article was written in March, 2017 during Gov. LePage's administration.  The Maine Department of Health and Human Services under Gov. Mills is working to remedy the lack of affordable child care and to link child care, job training, and job creation.  It's a work in progress, and the problems haven't been solved yet.  Some of the statistics cited in this article are now out of date.

Matthew Stone Wexaminesthe problem of the lack of affordable child care from the viewpoint of parents, providers, agencies, and employers.  In the future we will update information on child care and on other socio-economic aspects that are linked to ACEs.

                                                                                                     - David Cote

Maine’s constricting labor force offers an opportunity to pull people into the workforce who otherwise wouldn’t work, and to move lower-paid workers up the job chain into positions that pay more.

But the public programs in place to help people improve their job prospects are largely set to autopilot, or they are greatly limited in their reach due to the way they are designed and funded.

This is the first article in a series called Forgotten Maine Workers that examines how Maine could realize the hidden potential among its workers. 

Read the whole article at:   http://mainefocus.bangordailyn...ilemma/#.XfvR5ndFyUn