Green-collar jobs are good paying, career track jobs that contribute significantly to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. Like traditional blue-collar jobs, green collar jobs range from low-skill, entry level positions to high-skill, higher-paid jobs, and include opportunities for advancement in both skills and wages. Green-collar jobs focus on transforming the
Amy Hanauer moderated a forum on Green Jobs at the City Club of Cleveland on April 29, 2009. Panelists included Courtney DeOreo, David Rinebolt and Carl Scheutzow. They discussed the potential for green jobs in our region and the infrastructure that already exists to train workers for green-colar jobs.
For the 2005 tax year, more than 800,000 Ohio families received the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a refundable tax credit for workers in families that make less than $42,000. The average EITC in Ohio was $1,756, bringing more than $1.4 billion into Ohio communities. Adding a 5 percent
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The transportation budget approved by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Strickland April 1 included measures that will help many unemployed workers in Ohio. … Full Policy Brief
REPORT: “Restoring America’s Manufacturing Leadership through Energy Efficiency”March 25, 2009 Full Report
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Ohio’s foreclosure crisis continued to worsen in 2008, setting a new record with 85,782 new foreclosure filings, according to the annual study issued by Policy Matters Ohio. Ohio saw a 1.2 percent increase from 2007 and a 70 percent increase from 10 years ago. The latest numbers indicate that there
¡Bienvenida! – We’re thrilled to welcome (back) Wendy Patton as a new Senior Associate out of Columbus, focused on federal policy, particularly as it relates to making Ohio’s economy greener while building and retaining employment here. Wendy studied and worked at Kent State in the 1970s and received her masters
Policy Matters has organized and hosted four Progressive Scholars conferences (Kent State University, Oberlin College, the University of Akron, and Otterbein College) and a symposium on the economics of criminal justice (Kent State University).
Policy Matters staff often testifies in Ohio House and Senate Committee hearings. Examples of such testimony can be found on our pages related to the Taft Tax Proposal, Unemployment Compensation Tax Avoidance, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the Cleveland Living Wage law and the Minimum Wage.
