The four-member delegation sent a letter to federal officials on Tuesday, calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation to clarify a federal rule about the definition of agricultural commodities.
The report added a measure of racial income inequity this year and found that between 2014-2018 income for people of color in the state was 39% less than for white Mainers.
The postal system has been strained by a sharp increase in parcel mail and has yet to receive any COVID relief funds despite incurring huge costs related to the pandemic.
The new plan would do away with the city’s so-called ‘matrix,’ a complicated scoring system to determine which businesses would receive priority in getting licenses.
For the week ending September 12, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 1,400 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 1,000 initial claims filed for federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA).
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) informed the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) and Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) last night that it has approved Maine’s application for Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) funding, which will temporarily add $300 to the weekly unemployment benefits of eligible Mainers. This morning, MDOL signed the formal award memo from FEMA.