Benefits attributed to Ohio’s Enterprise Zone Program (EZP) are more likely to go to higher-income school districts than to lower-income school districts, according to a new study conducted by Kent State University Assistant Professor Mark Cassell. “Of benefits attributed to the program, five times as much real property investment and
It may sometimes seem that what happens behind bars has little bear ing on the economy, and that economics has little to do with public safety. In fact, criminal justice policy is all about how we use resources –economic resources, human resources and development resources. As Ohio stares down a
The first State of Working Ohio, written by Amy Hanauer and Mark Cassell before the creation of Policy Matters Ohio, was published by the Northeast Ohio Research Consortium. This in-depth analysis of wage change between 1979 and 1997 found that wage inequality had grown, wages had declined for 80 percent
As a supplement to the first State of Working Ohio (released before Policy Matters Ohio was officially founded), the authors also released an analysis of wage differences by location in Ohio. This report examined wage changes and current wages in Ohio’s largest metropolitan areas to gain an understanding of how
Wealthy Benefit Most From Enterprise Zones
Wealthy benefit most from enterprise zones, but the program was supposed to create jobs in economically depressed urban areas. The Ohio Enterprise Zone Program, created in 1981 to spur economic development and job creation in depressed urban areas, has evolved into a tax subsidy program whose reported benefits go disproportionately