Prison funds outpace college aid, study saysBy Joe Mahr The Toledo Blade Ohio prisons added about 17,000 African-American men over two decades, but its four-year colleges added fewer than 500 – a ratio that a think tank said is second worst in the nation. The data come from a national
The funding of higher education and corrections and its impact on African American men Cellblocks or Classrooms, an August 2002 joint release with the national Justice Policy Institute, found that between 1985 and 2000 in Ohio, corrections spending grew 5.5 times faster than spending on higher education spending. At the
Columbus Dispatch A nonpartisan research group yesterday questioned $1.4 million in state tax credits for a huge Kroger warehouse being built near Delaware as well as $10 million in incentives given to three new Wal-Mart facilities across the state.
Crain’s Cleveland Business Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades in the White House were the invention of a vast rightwing conspiracy, and the state of Ohio s mounting outlays to private contractors to perform work for the government are the politically biased concoction of a public policy research group controlled by Democrats.
Bill goes from $200M to $609M in 10 years by Laura A. Bischoff Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | State government spending onconsultants has skyrocketed during the past 10years with inadequate oversight to make sureOhio is getting what it s paying for, according toa Cleveland think-tank report. The purchase of “personal
Despite tremendous economic growth in the 1980s and 90s and low unemployment in the late 1990s, gaps between high-income and low- and middle-income families are historically wide, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In all but
This March 2002 report shows Cleveland’s living wage ordinance has been hindered by implementation problems since its January 2001 effective date. Especially in the areas of contract monitoring, health care provisions, and notification of affected employees, the report suggests needed improvements in the law’s wording and administration.
Failing the Unemployed, produced nationally by the Economic Policy Institute, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the National Employment Law Project, takes a detailed look at unemployment insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, evaluating how each measures up in five critical areas: Eligibility requirements,
Education Weekly by Mark Walsh When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the topic of Cleveland’sschool vouchers next week in a case destined for landmarkstatus, the central issue will be the constitutionality of includingreligious schools in a state program that gives tuition aid tochildren from low-income families. The wisdom or
New York Times by Jacques Steinberg CLEVELAND
Columbus Dispatch by Alison Grant The biomedical industry poses tantalizing possibilities for job expansion but is overemphasized as an engine for economic growth in Northeast Ohio. So concludes a local study that points to numbers showing that biotechnology accounts for a fraction of jobs in the region: four-tenths of 1
Education Weekly by Lisa Fine One out of three students who received aid for private school tuition through the Cleveland voucher program had already been enrolled in a private school before receiving the publicly funded benefits, concludes a study released last week. Meanwhile, just one in five students in the
