The budget bill under negotiation in the conference committee of the Ohio legislature will impose devastating cuts on schools, local governments and health and human services. These cuts will hurt our economy and result in fewer jobs in the public and private sectors. Yet elected leaders who tout the virtue
Patrick Bresette of the national think tank Demos gave a talk entitled “Trust in Government: Whose Problem is It?” on June 22 at the City Club. Bresette addressed the nature of civic trust, the damaging consequences of our cynical political culture, and the responsibility we all share to restore government
Emerging from the Ohio Senate and now before conference committee, the proposed budget for the next two years imposes harsh cuts. The 2005 tax slashing removed more than $4 billion in state revenues over the course of this budget. To preserve these tax cuts, which largely went to corporations and
On June 13, Wendy Patton gave this statement on the Ohio Works Progress Administration at a press conference with Representatives Mike Foley and Nicki Antonio.
The economic policies aimed at employment for the past 30 years have typically positioned job creation as a secondary or tertiary benefit that trickles down from a primary mission of boosting wealth. That has not worked here.
Policy Matters Ohio Statement on the Budget Bill for 201213 Under consideration by the Ohio Senate The Senate’s changes to the House budget plan are as minor in size as the changes made by the House to the Executive budget. The budget moving through the Senate finance committee adds $22
In February, anticipating a possible expansion in Ohio’s 10-year-old experiment with private corrections, Policy Matters Ohio retained me to ask a simple question with a potentially complicated answer: Have private prisons actually saved Ohio taxpayers any money? And if so, how much? … Full Testimony
Talk of the Town – Join One Ohio Now tomorrow (Wednesday, May 25) at 7 p.m. on a Tele-Townhall for the latest on the state budget and how you can influence the outcome as the Senate puts its mark on the bill. Register now, then call in at 877-340-7912. Want
Testimony of Piet van Lier, Senior Researcher,before the Senate Finance CommitteeMay 17, 2011 Good afternoon Chairman Widener, Ranking Member Skindell and members of the Senate Finance Committee. My name is Piet van Lier, and I am a researcher at Policy Matters Ohio, a nonpartisan state policy organization conducting research on
Ohio’s new budget preserves $7 billion in tax breaks and keeps in place tax cuts exceeding $10,000 a year for the wealthiest 1% of Ohioans. It also cuts over $2 billion from schools and over $1 billion from local government, and slashes state spending for libraries, mental health and children’s
Since the first private prisons were opened in Ohio in 2000, Ohio law has required that any private operator produce savings of at least 5 percent compared to what it would cost the state to operate the same facility. This April 2011 report, written by journalist Bob Paynter for Policy
The State of Ohio is staring at a huge budget problem in 2011, because of therecession but also because of conscious state policy: The tax overhaul of 2005, the biggest in a generation. … 2-Page Fact Sheet
