Global climate change creates serious, measurable risks to human health. According to the EPA’s Fourth National Climate Report, one of the most dangerous effects of global climate change in the Midwest is increasingly extreme heatwaves. Air pollution, which contributes to lung and cardiovascular diseases, is exacerbated by periods of extreme
Come January, Governor-elect Mike DeWine will begin to shape the future of Ohio’s public policy, workforce and economy. Policy Matters is here to help, with research-backed policy recommendations for an Ohio that works for everyone. In the past year, we’ve released plans for supporting working families, revamping Ohio’s tax code
Virgil Pittman was going to be a teacher. He was 19, had graduated from Cleveland’s John F. Kennedy high school. He was taking classes at Cuyahoga Community College. It was 1995, the height of America’s “War on Drugs.” So, when Garfield Heights police caught Virgil with half a joint, they
Ohio’s wealthiest 1 percent of households took home 15.8 percent of all earned income in the state in 2015. That is more than twice the share captured by the top percentile in 1974, and within five percentage points of the share they held just before the onset of the Great
A new report finds that Ohio’s wealthiest 1 percent made on average 18.6 times more than the average income of all other Ohio families in 2015, before taxes and transfers. The national report, by economists Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price, was published by the Economic Policy Institute. Using Sommeiller and
Cynthia Connolly accepts Community Shares’ 2018 Rising Activist award Policy Matters Ohio development director Cynthia Connolly received the 2018 Rising Activist award from Greater Cleveland Community Shares. The award honors an individual under the age of 40 whose social justice activism sets a strong example for young adult leadership and
Government’s biggest cuts hurt America’s smallest citizens
This article originally appeared on Cleveland.com and is reproduced here with permission. Now that they have passed funding to get through the rest of 2018, President Trump and his allies in Congress will begin sharpening their knives to slash federal programs that keep our kids healthy and safe: Trump’s 2019