Now that the state spent a half million dollars to get a group from Rhode Island to tell state officials how to manage the state’s welfare programs, what did they learn? Educators tell the public that it is more challenging for poor kids to learn; maybe welfare benefits should be increased. Do we want our […]
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Maine terminates Alexander Group contract for welfare report
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that it is terminating a nearly $1 million contract with a group hired to study Maine’s welfare system. “We determined there was value contained in the content that was produced under this agreement,” according to a statement released by the department. “But serious […]
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LePage says DHHS in talks with consultant over plagiarized study
LEWISTON — Gov. Paul LePage said he hoped the problems around a controversial welfare study his administration commissioned on a $925,200 no-bid contract could be used as an “education moment,” during a visit to Lewiston on Thursday. LePage was visiting the Androscoggin Business to Business Trade Show at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee when he told […]
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LePage, legislative leaders to discuss Alexander Group report next week
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage will meet legislative leaders to discuss what action the state may take against the Alexander Group in the wake of allegations the Rhode Island consultant plagiarized its recent report on reforming Maine’s welfare system. Peter Steele, the governor’s communications director, said Thursday that LePage would meet with the top Democratic […]
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LePage tells Democratic leaders to butt out of Alexander Group contract controversy
AUGUSTA — In a strident letter delivered Monday, Republican Gov. Paul LePage told Democratic legislative leaders not to “stick their noses” into executive branch business. The letter was a response to one sent to the governor last week by Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, and House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, in which the lawmakers […]
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LePage administration releases Alexander Group’s welfare study after months-long delay
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a much-anticipated study by a controversial consultant, which presented analysis of and recommendations for the state’s welfare programs. The 228-page analysis was the result of months of work by the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group, which received a $925,000 no-bid contract for consulting […]
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Alexander Group releases welfare report recommending changes
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a much-anticipated study by a controversial consultant, which presented analysis of and recommendations for the state’s welfare programs. The 228-page analysis was the result of months of work by the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group, which received a $925,000 no-bid contract for consulting […]
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Senate passes bill to cancel welfare consultant’s contract
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Senate has approved a measure to cancel Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration’s contract with a consultant examining its Medicaid program. The Senate backed the bill with a 21-14 vote Wednesday. The bill eliminating the contract with the Alexander Group, led by the former welfare chief of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, was endorsed […]
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House to consider bill to cancel no-bid Alexander Group contract
AUGUSTA — The House of Representatives will take up a bill to nullify the controversial no-bid contract awarded to the Alexander Group to review the state’s welfare system, including Medicaid. The contract, worth $925,000, was awarded to the Rhode Island-based consultant in September. Under the terms of the contract, the consultant will deliver several studies […]
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LePage administration continues campaign against Medicaid expansion
Agriculture Commissioner Walter Whitcomb said the state’s natural resource agencies — Agriculture, Conservation, Marine Resources, Environmental Protection, and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife — had lost $13 million in state funding in just five years, a reduction he attributes to regular annual shortfalls in the the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers MaineCare. “We […]