Ohio has one state source for need-based financial aid — the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG). Lawmakers smartly increased OCOG funding, both in the last budget and in this one. In total, the Governor’s proposal increases need-based aid by $12.7 million (6.7 percent) over the next two years. By 2019,
Vetting needed, but new nominee appears friendlier to workers After the failed nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor, the Trump administration put forward Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law and former assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division under President George W.
Today, a group of local worker and community advocates held a press conference voicing opposition to President Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andrew Puzder. Policy Matters Ohio researcher Hannah Halbert delivered a statement at the press conference, which can be found below. A weakened Department of Labor led by a
Report shows credit could do more to keep working families out of poverty Most states with an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) use it to put money back in working people’s pockets and balance the state tax code. But according to a new report released today by Policy Matters Ohio,
Ohio’s tax system is both regressive and inadequate to meet our needs. Tax cuts have overwhelmingly favored the wealthiest taxpayers. The richest 1 percent of Ohioans, on average, pay about 6 percent of their income in state and local taxes, the bottom fifth of earners, on average, pay nearly double
Policy Matters Ohio joins workers in testimony to the Joint Committee on Unemployment Compensation Reform. I’m a coal miner’s daughter. In the boom years, we were lucky enough to take a summer vacation. We’d drive to Virginia Beach and spend a few days getting sunburnt and eating bologna sandwiches in
Benefit cuts won’t improve system solvency and will hurt workers, businesses and communities, Policy Matters testifies.
Policy Matters testimony to the Unemployment Compensation Reform Joint Committee.
Download summary Download report Download appendix Press release Executive summary. House Bill 394, the controversial bill that would slash unemployment compensation in Ohio, puts us all at risk. In Ohio the average duration of Unemployment Compensation (UC) benefits is just 14.6 weeks and a smaller share of recipients exhausts all
Growth, just barely: After April’s big loss Ohio adds jobs, but not many Job Watch May 2016 Ohio, like the nation had very little job growth in May. The state added just 9,200 jobs last month, not enough to recover the number of jobs shed in April. Even with the
New testing options needed in face of GED collapse in Ohio.
Fair share is fair. That was the finding of an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court, which today issued a one-sentence decision that upheld nearly 40 years of legal precedent and the right of public sector workers to collectively bargain. No worker can be forced to join a union even though
