Maine has a workforce shortage problem that it hopes to resolve with recently arrived immigrants
FILE — Gov. Janet Mills attends an event at the Blaine House, Friday, March 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. Mills and a state lawmaker who immigrated from Somalia unveiled a proposal on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, to resolve the state's serious worker shortage by tapping swiftly growing immigrant communities. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and a state lawmaker who immigrated from Somalia unveiled a proposal on Friday to try to resolve the state's serious worker shortage by tapping swiftly growing immigrant communities.
Maine traditionally has had among the smallest immigrant populations in the country. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, only about 4% of the state's residents were born outside the U.S.
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