CEO pay at major corporate Ohio employers is 254 times that of their typical employee In 1965, CEOs at the largest U.S. companies were paid 21 times as much as their typical worker. In the 60 years since then, the pay ratio between CEOs and their median workers has soared
Information, resources, and tips for anyone with health insurance coverage through the ACA Marketplace Premium tax credits — which helped thousands of Ohioans afford health insurance through the ACA Marketplace — will expire at the end of the year without action from Congress. Ohio families are already feeling the impacts. This
Bill would have put very young teens at risk, held down wages for adults, created headaches for businesses Today, Gov. DeWine vetoed Senate Bill 50, which would have extended working hours for 14- and 15-year-olds to 9pm on school nights, in violation of federal law. Policy Matters Ohio’s executive director,
Food and health care should not be competing priorities Yesterday, Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order that will provide $25 million in emergency food assistance to cover a funding gap caused by the Trump administration’s decision to leave SNAP unfunded during the federal government shutdown. Policy Matters Ohio Executive
D.C. delegation should speak up; governor should convene leaders to find state-level emergency funds Nearly 1.5 million Ohioans will face food assistance disruption and delay when funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) runs out on November 1st. The Trump administration could use the tools currently available to the
Federal lawmakers could avoid a price-hike while averting a government shutdown *UPDATE: October 1, 2025 — Where indicated, this release had been updated to reflect new KFF analysis based on more recent data, showing that without Congressional action, annual Healthcare Marketplace premiums will more than double next year, from an
Today, Policy Matters Ohio released an updated and expanded “State of Working Ohio” report, providing a broader picture of how the economy is working for working people. The additional data — covering employment, wages, productivity, and unionization rates — provide additional context to understand the Ohio economy, as well as
The State of Working Ohio 2025 Updated & expanded: September 11, 2025 In 1999, the year before Policy Matters was founded, Amy Hanauer and Mark Cassell published the very first State of Working Ohio report. Among their findings: In the previous 20 years, Ohio’s median wage had fallen, including decreases
Billion-dollar handout comes at a cost Gov. DeWine has signed House Bill 96, the state’s biennial budget bill, after vetoing 67 line items from the text submitted last week by the General Assembly. Policy Matters Executive Director Hannah Halbert issued the following statement: “As submitted to Gov. DeWine, this budget
Senate gives a billion-dollar annual tax break to Ohioans earning six figures, underfunds schools by $2.74 billion, and leaves behind students with the most need Note: Analysis and resources linked on this page were correct at the time of publication. They may now be out-of-date. Our most current statewide analysis
The Fair School Funding Plan (FSFP) is a bipartisan approach to school funding based on how much districts must spend to educate every child, including those who need different or additional support. The FSFP works because it is based on the actual cost of educating kids, sharing that cost between
The school funding proposal put forward by Speaker Huffman provides the vast majority of Ohio districts far less than the actual cost of educating kids, returning Ohio to the days of funding schools based on what politicians want instead of what our children need. See how the House plan would
