BDN Interviews Brewer for Article on LePage, Welfare Reform

The Bangor Daily News spoke with Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the analysis “Is LePage’s recent focus on welfare reform a preview of his top 2014 campaign theme?” Brewer said he thinks recent arguments by the Republican Party around welfare reform are pre-staging the 2014 elections. The article also cited a study by the University of Maine and Maine Equal Justice Partners titled “TANF Time Limits and Maine Families: Consequences of Withdrawing the Safety Net.”