Welcome to century: Maine incomes decline

[MaineDem]

The new millennium dawned in northern New England with incomes falling in Maine, rising sharply in New Hampshire and inching upward in Vermont, newly released U.S. Census data show.

An Associated Press analysis of Census data released Thursday compared median household incomes in 1998 through 2000 with the first three years of the new millennium, 2001 to 2003. The data also showed that the percentage of Vermont and Maine residents with health insurance grew while New Hampshire's dropped.

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Maine's median household income went in the opposite direction from its neighbor's, dropping from $39,815 to $37,619 between the same two periods, Census data showed.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/040827mainecensus.shtml

It begs the questions, are you better off now than you were 4 years ago!

Also, this talks about the increase in numbers of people with health insurance. In Maine at least, there's no way this can be credited to the Bush administration. Maine has new programs for insuring its citizens and it was through no effort of the Federal government!

[chelsea0011]

1. Good News! Rancidcot said this AM those figures only go to 2003

The economy is booming now with new jobs and millions are pulling themselves out of poverty.

The worst news....millions more go into poverty and millions more lose insurance benefits through the Bush years is met with a so what. And the news media doesn't even slam Bush over these figures. I guess they need to hear from the Poverty Families for Truth to cover this troubling important story.