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Huffington Post The past decade has largely been one of erosion for the U.S. economy: jobs lost, homes foreclosed on, gains in equality erased. And according to a new report from Policy Matters Ohio, wages too have declined in no less than 10 states, once adjusted for inflation. “The first
On September 7 and 8, the 2011 Ohio Benefit Bank Community Meeting and Training will give providers, nonprofits and CDCs a clearinghouse of information on public assistance, free tax preparation, FAFSA enrollment and asset building. With Keynote speaker Richard Cordray, former Ohio Attorney General and recently nominee to head the
The Cleveland Plain Dealer Deborah Normand is making $10,000 less a year, but she feels she’s among the lucky ones. She went from working as an office manager for a wholesale business to a clerical position, and it took a year and half for her to find that job. “I
The Akron Beacon Journal On this Labor Day, more than two-fifths of the 14 million Americans who are unemployed have been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer. The previous high for the long-term unemployed (at least since 1950) was 26 percent in June 1983. That gap may be
The Toledo Blade What President Obama tells the nation Thursday night will have a lot to do with whether he is re-elected next year. More immediately, it will greatly affect the hopes of economic recovery in Ohio and the rest of the country. The President must offer a comprehensive plan
Ohio Reverses Course in August: Investment Needed to Revive Recovery Data released today by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) from its survey of employers for August 2011 show that the state lost jobs in August. The new jobs numbers are in line with a separate survey
Release of school rating data by the Ohio Department of Education shows that state education law is stacked against Ohio’s urban school districts. Even though five of the eight urban districts ??” Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo ??” have been graded at or above Continuous Improvement for the second
The Budget and You – What are the real costs of state budget cuts? Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality (NOBLE) sponsors a conversation Thursday night, August 11 at 6:30 pm at Trinity Cathedral (2230 Euclid Avenue), on how local services- child care, mental health, education, disability services and more
JobWatch Returns – Last week, Policy Matters re-launched our monthly JobWatch report series in partnership with the Economic Policy Institute, analyzing employment in Ohio. Our August report finds Ohio on a slow slog toward recovery. Since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the state has added only 62,500 jobs.
Ohio is Still Suffering in the Wake of the Great Recession Ohio employment continues to make month-to-month gains in the number of nonfarm jobs, but they still leave the state far short of making up for the losses in the past two recessions. Data released by the Ohio Department of
