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)
January 22, 2024
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January 22, 2024 2 p.m.
Maine has a workforce shortage problem that it hopes to resolve with recently arrived immigrants
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and a state representative who immigrated from Somalia are looking to create a new government office that would tap recent immigrants to try to solve a workforce shortage in the state.