Faith leaders urge funding for Mainers’ needs amid record revenue surplus

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Faith leaders urge funding for Mainers’ needs amid record revenue surplus

Faith leaders in Maine are calling on lawmakers to pass a budget that makes record investments into housing, childcare, healthcare and other urgent needs at a time of a record revenue surplus. “Maine has been lucky to have leadership that plans for the future with care and intentionality, resulting in a completely full rainy day fund. And, every virtue pushed to its extreme becomes a vice,” said Rev. Jodi Cohen Hayashida, an organizer with Multi…