Portland Spends 50 Times More Per Person on Welfare Than Other Maine Cities, Spent 73% of All General Assistance Dollars Since 2019, Records Show
Maine’s municipal welfare spending, known as General Assistance, has been dominated by the city of Portland over the last four and a half years, according to records from the Department of Health and Human Services obtained via the Freedom of Access Act. The city of Portland accounted for $79.6 million of all General Assistance welfare […]
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