Our own Amy Hanauer joined the WKYC debate with Keith Ashmus over Issue 2, discussing worker compensation, employee healthcare and pension, and the Issue’s financial impact on Ohio’s workers. Watch Amy in this Between the Lines with Tom Beres clip
Ohio’s Job Outlook Continues to be Weak;Austerity Policies Not Generating Promised Economic Boost Data released by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) from its survey of employers for September 2011 suggest that the state, like the nation, is seeing a slowing recovery. Overall, the number of jobs
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Welcome Aboard – We’re thrilled to welcome Pari Sabety and Ruth Clevenger to our board of directors. Pari Sabety, the Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer for Antioch University, has also served as state budget director, a Brookings Institution fellow, director of Brookings’ Urban Markets Initiative and director of the
Welcome Aboard – We’re thrilled to welcome Pari Sabety and Ruth Clevenger to our board of directors. Pari Sabety, the Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer for Antioch University, has also served as state budget director, a Brookings Institution fellow, director of Brookings’ Urban Markets Initiative and director of the
We were amused to read last Monday’s top story in the Huffington Post, titled “This Acorn Won’t Crack“. The story described a caller to our Cleveland office, dangling the bait of having “a lot of money” and trying to get our director, Amy Hanauer, to reveal a desire to release
The economy fell off a cliff in 2008 as we experienced the most devastating downturn since the Great Depression. Unemployment hit double digits resulting in significant economic hardship and increasing demands on government safety nets and services to help those in need. At the same time, state revenues plummeted as
On March 31, 2011, Governor Kasich signed Senate Bill 5, which made vast changes to Ohio’s public employee collective bargaining law. The bill greatly reduces the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 Ohio public workers. The changes include: banning the right to strike, ending binding arbitration for safety forces, eliminating annual
