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On Thursday, nurses publicly called on Gov. Janet Mills to support LD 1639, a bill that would create mandated nurse-to-patient ratios based on patients’ needs in Maine’s acute-care hospitals.

The Maine House voted 77-70 and the Senate voted 23-11 this week to support a bill from Governor Janet Mills that would finally make farmworkers eligible for the state minimum wage (currently at $14.15) and grant them the right to take an action in court if their wages are stolen.

The Maine House voted 82-66 and the Maine Senate voted 22-12 this week in support of a measure that would create a special commission to examine the damaging practice of mandatory overtime in paper mills and recommend solutions to limit forced overtime.

If you are interested in taking in taking the Organizing for Power’s Core Fundamentalist, the deadline to register is April 26.

The average taxpayer spends a whopping $200-plus a year on tax prep services. I bet we can all think of better things we could do with that money instead.