Identifying Childhood Hunger in Maine

Recent political campaigns at the national and state levels have been filled with much rhetoric about the present and future of families and children. But effective public policy developed in response to many pressing financial and social needs of families and children has not followed from the rhetoric. The lack of adequate quantitative research on the needs of children is often cited as a reason to move cautiously in responding to perceived needs. Deirdre Mageean discusses the nation’s public policy responses to poverty that have been attempted since the mid-1960s. Mageean, who served as co-director of a year-long childhood hunger study, examines these poverty policies in the context of the findings of that study, the Maine Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP). The Maine CCHIP study, along with 20 others conducted under the auspices of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) in recent years, have begun to fill some of the data needs of state and federal policymakers as they struggle to craft responsive and responsible poverty policies

Welfare Reform: Unresolved Issues

As this issue goes to press, the U.S. Congress debates passage of sweeping legislative reforms to welfare, shifting responsibility to the states via block grants. In this Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Deirdre Mageean highlights several unresolved welfare reform issues

Maine\u27s Recovery of Recreational Damages Due to Coastal Oil Spills

The report identifies 729 recreational sites across eleven coastal recreational resources or activities (herein noted as “coastal resources”) that have the potential to be directly impacted by a possible oil spill. Analyses include an evaluation of the availability of usage data and direct market values

Welcoming Remarks (Day 2)

Hurricane Floyd Symposiu

Welcoming Remarks (Day 1)

2009 Hurricane Floyd Symposiu