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2. Winter Relief Checks: Maine To Provide Families and Seniors ...

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   Maine lawmakers know how cold it gets in the Pine Tree State, and also know how high the heating bills will run this winter amid record high energy prices. To help out, they have announced a pair ...

3. Report: Lack of housing, labor, holding back Maine's growth

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   (The Center Square) — Chronic workforce shortages and a lack of affordable housing are throttling down Maine's economic growth, according to a new report that calls for increased funding and ...

4. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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   The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...

5. EDITORIAL: Affordable housing key to Maine's workforce ... - AOL

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   Jan. 9—During the 12-month period that ended last July 1, 17,600 Maine people died. During that same period, there were only 11,300 births. Basic arithmetic would tell us that means Maine's ...

6. Subsidized housing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...

7. Social programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The first large-scale social policy program in the United States was assistance to Union Civil War veterans and their families. [13] The program provided pensions and disability assistance. [13] From 1890 to the early 1920s, the U.S. provided what Theda Skocpol characterized as "maternalist policies", as it provided pensions for widowed mothers ...