Coalition Testifies Before House Education Committee This Week Parents and educators belonging to the All in For Ohio Kids (AOK) coalition testified again before the House Education Committee this week, urging lawmakers to adopt the Fair School Funding Plan with fully up-to-date costs. When the Fair School Funding Plan was
Before she moved back to Ohio nearly three years ago, Brecksville native Sharon Kim was an activist in her Brooklyn, NY neighborhood, Greenpoint. A clinical research administrator by trade, she advocated for single payer health care and served as President of Friends of Greenpoint Library. When she arrived in Central
This month, Ali Smith joined Policy Matters Ohio as Worker Center Network Liaison, increasing the organization’s capacity to improve conditions for working Ohioans. Smith will support Ohio’s network of three worker centers, the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center, the Central Ohio Worker Center, and the Northeast Ohio Worker Center. Worker centers
Today Ohioans of all walks of life joined together to launch the All In For Ohio Agenda, a bold, new platform for Ohio that promotes a progressive and multiracial democracy in our state. Find the All In For Ohio Agenda online or download the pdf. All in For Ohio is
Years ago, Kim Foreman was in a meeting discussing the buzzword of the day: Sustainability. She looked around the room and realized all the people there were white. Kim, who worked for Cleveland-based Environmental Health Watch (EHW) thought to herself: Black people already know all about sustainability. “Our grandparents came
322: That was ratio of CEO to typical employee pay at 54 of Ohio’s 100 biggest employers in 2020, according a new report from Michael Shields and intern Jenny Driscoll. Fifteen employers on the list pay the typical worker less than $26,500 a year. In recent decades, corporate boards have
Fifty-four of Ohio’s largest employers paid their CEOs a median of 322 times what they paid the typical employee in 2020, according to a new report by Policy Matters Ohio. The federal Dodd-Frank Act requires publicly traded companies provide the ratio of CEO pay to the median employee — the
Organization announces other staff changes Today, Policy Matters Ohio announced the addition of two state policy fellows through the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities State Policy Priorities (SPP) network, Tanisha Pruitt, Ph.D. and Guillermo Bervejillo, Ph.D. During the fellowship, Pruitt and Bervejillo will spend two years with Policy Matters
Today the All In For Ohio Kids coalition gathered in the Statehouse and called on lawmakers to give all Ohio children, no matter where they live or what they look like, the opportunity to follow their dreams and live up to their abilities. The coalition — made up of teachers,
Ohio policymakers must fix the way our state funds public education and ensure every student can attend fully and fairly funded public schools. SIGN THE PETITION The Fair Funding Plan will strengthen all our communities, expand opportunities for those who have been excluded, and address the unfair and unconstitutional way
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Cleveland tomorrow, Policy Matters Ohio Communications Director Caitlin Johnson made the following statement. “Most of us believe that to have a healthy, thriving nation, we need healthy, thriving people. But for years, certain politicians pitted us against each other based on what we
Keeping a promise: The Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition
As a Black woman who lived her entire life in Cleveland, Yvonka Hall knows health is multidimensional. Where people live, their jobs, their housing, their education, their family situations — all have profound effects on their wellbeing. It’s hard for people to be healthy if they’re exposed to toxic pollution,