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Maine Policy Review
ISSN 1064-2587 · Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center · 801 artikel di indeks
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Choosing Our Technological Futures
Whether it be artificial intelligence (AI) or the blockchain technology behind cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes, there is no significant public debate about the social, economic, or environmental impacts of new technologies. Rather than rely on technology assessment to judge whether a new technology is…
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Hate Speech in the Digital Age: Balancing Constitutional Freedoms with Just Regulation
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2025 asked students their opinion on the rights of speakers in the public square. Should people be allowed to express anything they desire no matter the ripple effect their words may…
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The Impact of Maine’s Municipal Shellfish Management on Clam Harvester Motivation to Participate in Resource Conservation
Over the last decade, landings from one of Maine’s most valuable marine resources, soft-shell clams, have declined due to environmental and social stressors. To address this challenge, some municipal shellfish committees have encouraged or required harvesters to participate in conservation…
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The Impact on Health Insurance Affordability for Maine Households If Enhanced Tax Credits Expire
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established premium tax credits to help eligible households lower their payments for qualified health plans offered through the health insurance exchanges. In 2021, Congress increased and expanded eligibility for these tax credits; however, without…
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Taking Action on Screen Time: Phone-Free Classrooms and Other Steps to Improve Youth Mental Health, Attention, and Academics
Youth spend an inordinate amount of time on phones and other screen-based devices; yet research shows myriad negative effects of this behavior on education and general health of young people. In this commentary, I highlight the evidence on how excess screen time affects youth from birth to late…
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Reenvisioning Town Meetings as Accessible to Caregivers of Young Children
This paper presents an analysis of the accessibility of town meeting government to caregivers of babies and young children. The article examines prior research on who typically attends town meetings and explores challenges to caregivers’ attendance. Findings suggest that due to existing challenges…
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Public Participation in Maine’s Environmental Policy: Opportunities to Strengthen Inclusivity
Maine is known for its progressive approach to environmental policy in part due to the state’s historical dependence on natural resources and rich biodiversity. Mainers engage in local politics: testifying at public hearings, contacting their elected officials, and submitting public comments…
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Wabanaki Forests: Identity, Cultural Connections, and a Call for New Collaborations
Author Micah A. Pawling explores Wabanaki people’s views on forest lands as part of their cultural identity. Wabanaki forests represent self-sufficiency and knowledge systems that many tribal citizens use to reinforce their identity as Indigenous people. These forests reveal that the repercussions…
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Perceptions of Spruce Budworm Monitoring, Management, and Remote Sensing Technology in Maine's Forest Sector
Eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem; SBW) is a native forest pest that can severely damage spruce-fir forests in Maine. Monitoring SBW defoliation and populations is important to ensure forest managers make timely decisions regarding forest management. This research brief presents…
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Adapting Small-Scale Fiber Production to the 21st Century: Maine’s Evolving Strategies
This study, funded by the US Small Business Administration, aims to better understand the operational, strategic, and economic dimensions of Maine’s fiber producers’ businesses. Fiber producers are those raising animal-based fiber, including sheep, alpacas, rabbits, and goats. The producer focus of…
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Medicaid Expansion in Maine Significantly Reduced Uncompensated Care Costs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study examines the impact of Maine’s 2019 Medicaid expansion through the Affordable Care Act on hospitals’ uncompensated care costs. The author finds that this expansion reduced uncompensated care costs by an average of 26 percent per year, leading to a $126 million reduction in uncompensated…
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Roles for Maine ’s Physicians in the Climate Crisis
Physicians have important roles to play in the climate crisis because they deal with the health impacts of climate change. We surveyed physicians in Maine about climate change and health, and of the 108 respondents, 84 (78 percent) believe that climate change poses a threat to the health of their…
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Legislate, Educate, Integrate: Three Steps to Help Teenagers Coexist with the Internet
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2024 asked students to recommend guidelines that we should establish concerning teenagers’ use of technology to ensure their personal safety and privacy. Essays have been edited for…
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“Smells fishy”: Exploring Community Reactions to Aquaculture in Frenchman Bay, Maine
The authors of this research brief conducted a series of qualitative interviews with people in the Frenchman Bay watershed in Maine concerning a proposal for an aquaculture facility in the bay. Based on the interviews, they identified emergent themes regarding place attachments to Frenchman Bay and…
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Collaborating for a Thriving Maine Forest Sector
The authors of this commentary describe a coming together of an EPSCoR planning team with community leaders across the northeastern US forest sector. The community leaders came in support of this high-stake NSF proposal and in support of each other. As a result, their transdisciplinary…
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Single-Payer Health Care Reform: Cost Considerations in Maine
One of the suggested reforms of our troubled health care system is the publicly funded universal health care, or single-payer, model; one of the arguments against it is its presumed cost. Using 2020 data for Maine (the most complete recent data available), I distinguish and examine three types of…
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Broadband Diffusion in Rural Maine: A Qualitative Assessment of Residents’ Attitudes
The transition to universal broadband in rural Maine will be transformative, and as policymakers shift focus towards adoption and use, they should thoroughly understand how rural Mainers view the internet more broadly and how they see broadband affecting their lives and communities. Through…
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Food Insecurity in Maine Higher Education
In 2017–2018, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Campus Compact conducted a statewide analysis to assess the extent and subsequent effects of food and housing insecurity within the college student population. A total of 26 higher education institutions (community colleges and…
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Gateway to Opportunity: A promising summer youth employment model to address local workforce needs
Throughout Maine, employers struggle to find workers with in-demand skills and competencies. Concurrently, work-eligible youth are often unable to find skill-building employment experiences. The Gateway to Opportunity (G2O) program is a comprehensive youth-adult partnership model developed in…