Housing First saves lives, and saves communities money. Many thanks to KeyBank for supporting people struggling with homelessness in Maine.

One in five kids in Maine struggles with hunger. When kids are hungry, they can’t learn. By simply changing the time a school serves breakfast, test scores rise, behavioral problems drop and graduation rates soar.

Housing First saves lives, and saves communities money. Many thanks to KeyBank for supporting people struggling with homelessness in Maine.

After 18 years with this agency, Preble Street associate director Jon Bradley is retiring this month. We will miss him dearly. We will miss him dearly.

South Portland adds mobile cart to breakfast program, ensuring students can go to class without the distraction and pain of hunger.

Emergency homeless shelters are now allowed in business and industrial zones throughout the city, following a unanimous City Council vote Monday night.

“Never in the 50-plus years of Medicaid’s existence has health coverage been conditional to whether you’re working,” said MaryBeth Musumeci of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “This would be breaking new ground, and the question is how far would the Trump administration go in allowing these proposals to move forward.”

The LePage administration wants to require people who receive Medicaid to work or volunteer in order to receive health care. The state imposed a similar requirement for food stamps a few years ago. The administration touts it as a pathway out of poverty, while others call it a roadblock.

In the eyes of the state of Maine, Laurie Kane is an able-bodied adult without dependents, and thus ineligible for most forms of government support. In her own eyes, it is hard to see how she is going to find housing, work, and stability without help.

Reducing assistance for poor people in the U.S. is a centerpiece of the budget the Trump administration unveiled Tuesday. It calls for huge cuts to Medicaid, Social Security disability payments, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, food assistance and other anti-poverty programs.

“If I don’t have health care, I will die."

Judy Bullard says MaineCare is keeping her alive, and she would be in dire straits if she lost her health insurance and could no longer afford her medication.