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Maine Beacon - Maine became the first state in the nation to enact a statewide paid time off policy on Tuesday, with Governor Janet Mills signing a bill sponsored by Senator Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth) guaranteeing that most workers in Maine will have the right to earn paid days off to use however they need. 

Though average teacher salary has increased by 11.5% over the last decade, when taking inflation into account, average teacher salary has actually decreased by 4.5%, according to new data from the NEA.

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American farmland is increasingly being bought up by outside investors. As NPR noted in a recent report, nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland were held by foreign investors in 2015, nearly double the acres owned by foreign investors a decade before.