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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Lifeline for Hungry Mainers
This report illustrates the ways in which SNAP is a key tool for low-income Mainers to construct a path out of poverty and toward a more financially secure future.
Support An Act to Reduce Child Poverty by Leveraging Investments so Families can Thrive (LIFT 3.0)
Nearly one in eight Maine children is growing up poor with an average household income of less than $12,000 a year. One out of every five is food insecure, living in families that worry whether they will have enough to eat. Child poverty weighs all of us down — it challenges our schools, our health care system, our communities, and our economy.
Support Economic Security, Opportunity for ALL Maine People
Across Maine, immigrants are building new lives for their families and strengthening our communities. From Madawaska to Kittery and Lewiston to Millbridge, immigrants who have made their home here are making our state stronger.
Support real reform at Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Join with Maine Equal Justice to move DHHS towards real change. Together we can push for a vision where people’s experiences and dignity are at the center of DHHS practice. Many reforms can also help DHHS to be more efficient and effective with stronger oversight of critical anti-poverty programs.
TANF and ASPIRE Program Guide
Definitive guide to TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and ASPIRE (Additional Support for People in Retraining and Employment)
TANF Time Limits, One Year Later: How Families are Faring
Based on two independent studies done in 2012 and 2013, the law is not working as intended.
Testimony of Joby Thoyalil, Maine Equal Justice In support of LD 2, An Act To Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process
LD 2 sets up a process to review legislation to see what impact it would have on historically disadvantaged racial populations.
The Maine Low Cost Drug Program for the Elderly and Disabled and Maine Rx
Information about help paying for medications
The Real Impact of Medicaid Expansion in Maine
by Elizabeth H. Kilbreth, PhD, September 2017
Maine Equal Justice focuses its work on many of the issues that affect people’s daily lives – access to adequate health care, housing, transportation and childcare; food and income security; and higher education and training. Maine Equal Justice is a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization. Our EIN is 04-3346273. 