An article in the Maine Sunday Telegram about how new state government policies on contracts for intellectual services such as research and training are affecting the state’s public universities noted that a $3.5 million contract for providing nutritional education to food-stamp recipients, which went to the private University of New England, resulted in the loss of more than 40 jobs, including 16 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
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