There are plenty of jobs in Maine during the summer. The place is crawling with tourists. Anybody who really wants to work should be able to find a job.
The unemployment rate there is probably high because so many of them in Maine get paid under the table. When the governor required welfare recipients to either go to school or do volunteer work for 20 hours a week the welfare rolls were more than cut in half. That's because many on welfare were really working and not reporting their income.
I live in Maine, and employers have been complaining that they are not enough potential employees to hire.
Their is a labor shortage here, especially in the summer.
“There are plenty of jobs in Maine during the summer. The place is crawling with tourists. Anybody who really wants to work should be able to find a job.”
This is just a stunt to get a higher salary for the governor, lots of people in Maine would love to make $70k/yr. He knew what the salary was coming in. I missed the part where it said this was a summer job. Reeks of cronyism in my opinion.