Transforming blighted property is key to neighborhood vitality. Stronger efforts are needed.
Post-recession Ohio still faces a host of economic woes: Tepid job growth, high income inequality, wage stagnation, racial wage disparities and an increasing number of working families in poverty. Executive summary Productivity isn’t enough: America’s economy is expanding, but almost all of us are being left out of that growth.
“Working families struggle in Ohio because wages are too low, childcare costs are too high, they lack transportation, and basic needs are costly,” said Policy Matters Ohio Executive Director Amy Hanauer in testimony that she will deliver to the Ohio House Community and Family Advancement Committee at the Friendly Inn
Policy Matters Executive Director Amy Hanauer has a piece in The Huffington Post today challenging Republicans debating in Cleveland Thursday to have a real discussion of issues important to Northeast Ohio and beyond. She writes: “In Cleveland, as LeBron says, “nothing is given, everything is earned,” so earning respect here
I’m committed to Ohio, but I still talk with my hands like the Jersey girl I grew up as. Especially when talking about things I really care about, as in this TEDx talk I gave earlier this year, organized and captured on video by some amazing high school students. The
Gov. Kasich’s tax and spending cuts have not worked for Ohio, and his proposed budget is more of the same, Policy Matters Oho Executive Director Amy Hanauer said on “The State of Ohio.” The program airs this week on the The Ohio Channel. The debate starts at minute 5:17. Watch
Raise will help 277,000 Ohio minimum wage workers, as increases kick in across the country
On Labor Day 2014, Ohio workers have little to celebrate. Some indicators have improved slightly since their most dismal levels, particularly the unemployment rate. But for the most part, working people are not sharing in our economic growth. Ohio’s economy is growing more slowly than the nation’s, but it is
Director Amy Hanauer weighs in on the power of local communities to create positive change in a national climate that has often left families behind This article appeared originally in Dissent Magazine. Denial and indifference are two of the main congressional responses to the inequality, economic stagnation, and climate change
We write today to urge that our states — Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia — take a common, regional approach to taxation of gas and oil at the state level, by adopting a severance tax rate on fracking no lower than that of West Virginia, without holidays, exclusions and credits,
“On the 50thanniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, we can be thankful for important progress we’ve made in reducing poverty in America and Ohio,” said Amy Hanauer, executive director of Policy Matters Ohio. “Today, the safety net cuts poverty nearly in half and provides relief to many poor and
Plain Dealer op-ed: Strong policies help children flourish
New online tools provide look into how policies affect Ohio family budgets. Policy Matters Ohio and Columbia University National Center for Children in Poverty co-authored an op-ed in the Sunday Plain Dealer highlighting new online tools that show costs of basic family needs in Ohio, and how key policies affect