Janet Mills on Jobs

	Janet Mills on Jobs

Goal: 100% of students have option of paid internships

These internships will provide real world job experience in the trades, healthcare and other fields, connecting Maine kids to our economy and putting them on a path to good-paying jobs here in Maine. Ultimately, our goal is to expand this program statewide to ensure that 100 percent of Maine students have the option for a six month paid internship between their junior year of high school and one year after high school graduation. Source: 2021 State of the State Address to the Maine legislature , Feb 23, 2021

Scholarships & boosted retirement benefits for firefighters

I will create a scholarship fund for young people to train in fire suppression, with the first contribution coming from my contingent account as Governor. Maine needs more firefighters, particularly in rural Maine, and to that same end, I am proud to support legislation to fund the Maine Length of Service Program to boost retirement benefits to firefighters and EMS workers to compensate them for their service. We can do this. Because we are not Washington, we are Maine. Source: 2020 Maine State of the State address , Jan 21, 2020

Raise minimum wage to $12 by 2020

Minimum Wage: Raise the minimum wage above the current $7.25/hour?

Mills: Yes. Preserve recent increase passed by voters, to $12/hr by 2020.

Moody: No. Roll back recent increase. This is among the initiatives he opposed.

Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Maine Governor race , Nov 1, 2018

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