Maine's Primary Industries
Agriculture
Forest Products
Fishing
Mining
Any Variety of Minimum Wage Jobs
As with everyplace else in the United States, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen in Maine. Please come back after the construction of this page to take place in a conversation concerning the driving forces behind this dynamic.
Toward that end. The Maine Sunday Telegram, in its March 21, 1999, edition, reports that Maine's low pay and high cost of living combine to place maine at the bottom of the heap with respect to disposable income of all the states.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (Letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
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