The 2001 edition of the State of Working Ohio found that at even at the peak of the longest, strongest recovery in recorded history, Ohio workers were not reaping the rewards of a decade of extremely high productivity. Though low levels of unemployment in the late 1990’s finally boosted low-wage
In this May 2001 study, Amy Hanauer and Michael Hallett find that Ohio’s experiment with prison privatization is failing. Among the major findings of the report is that easy-to-manage inmates with dramatically fewer medical, disciplinary, and mental health needs have been targeted to private prisons in the state, allowing them
The first State of Working Ohio, written by Amy Hanauer and Mark Cassell before the creation of Policy Matters Ohio, was published by the Northeast Ohio Research Consortium. This in-depth analysis of wage change between 1979 and 1997 found that wage inequality had grown, wages had declined for 80 percent
As a supplement to the first State of Working Ohio (released before Policy Matters Ohio was officially founded), the authors also released an analysis of wage differences by location in Ohio. This report examined wage changes and current wages in Ohio’s largest metropolitan areas to gain an understanding of how
The Color of Money: Black-White Wage Gap Persists
Although U.S. economists still sing the praises of the last decade’s boom, a recent study confirms that many African Americans have not been hearing the same tune. The State of Working Ohio 2001, recently released by Policy Matters Ohio, reveals a steepening wage gap between black and white workers, overall