COVID-19

The submissions we received for this special MPR issue fall into three broad categories: pieces that examine measurable impacts of the pandemic, pieces that look at responses to the pandemic, and pieces that explore opportunities arising from the pandemic. The articles in this issue include many insights that can help us plan for, and prepare for, the future.

All Items

• (Un)precedented: Reflecting on the Early Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Amanda Rector (Author)

  8-9

• Building Youth Resiliency and Aspirations During a Crisis: Lessons Learned from Maine’s Aspirations Incubator During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Sarah Goan, Elora Way, Erin Cinelli, Don Carpenter (Author)

  84-89

• Community Support for Low-Income Elementary School Students with a Winter Gear Drive under COVID 19 Constraints

  Paige Wentworth, Lois-Ann Kuntz (Author)

  90-93

• Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market in 2020

  Philip Trostel (Author)

  26-33

• Exploring COVID-19 Impacts on Maine Tourism Using an Online Photo-Sharing Site

  Tracy Michaud, Colleen Metcalf, Matthew Bampton (Author)

  56-61

• Forced Hand: Educational Entrepreneurship and the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Katie Rybakova, Jeremy Pare (Author)

  94-97

• How to Save Jobs and Build Back Better: Employee Ownership Transitions as a Key to an Equitable Economic Recovery

  Rob Brown (Author)

  111-115

• Imagining Maine’s Economy in a Postpandemic World

  Stefano Tijerina (Author)

  128-129

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Tourism in Bar Harbor, Maine

  Todd Gabe (Author)

  48-55

• Inequality and Workforce Development in Maine in the Post-COVID-19 Environment

  Thomas Remington (Author)

  116-125

• Introduction

  Dora Mills, Amanda Rector, Linda Silka, Barbara Harrity (Author)

  6-7

• Looking Forward While Being Pushed Back: How Accurate Were Economic Forecasts for Maine during the Pandemic?

  Andrew Crawley, Angela Hallowell (Author)

  10-16

• Missteps in Managing the COVID-19 Crisis

  Joseph McDonnell (Author)

  72-80

• Moving Upstream: Health and Prosperity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Lisa Miller, Deborah Deatrick (Author)

  130-131

• Municipal Capacity to Respond to COVID-19: Implications for Improving Community Resilience in Maine

  Vanessa Levesque, Eileen Johnson, Kathleen Bell (Author)

  62-71

• Opportunity to Build Maine’s Workforce amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Laura Fairman (Author)

  126-127

• Prospects for a Rim County Renaissance: Pandemic as Economic Opportunity

  David Vail (Author)

  104-110

• Science in Maine: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Niles Parker, Kate Dickerson (Author)

  81-83

• The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maine’s Labor Market and Workforce

  Mark McInerney, Erin Fenton (Author)

  17-25

• The Great London Plague of 1665 and the US COVID-19 Pandemic Experience Compared

  Frank O'Hara (Author)

  98-103

• The Response of the Maine Food System to the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic

  JG Malacarne, Jason Lilley, Nancy McBrady (Author)

  34-47