The new Policy Matters Blog launched this spring as a new way to talk about issues important to you: Creating more and better jobs, ensuring a quality Ohio, making our communities more sustainable, and making our economy work for all of us. Our staff bloggers have told you about Ohio’s
State support for universities remains 18 percent below recession levels, study says.
A threat to women’s health care; a gift to the wealthy; a home-care crisis and a possible minimum wage hike. Women’s health care under threat — With Ohio ranking near the bottom of the 50 states in infant mortality, lawmakers should focus on improving care. But as Wendy Patton reports,
Policy Matters raises objections to Medicaid proposals in testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Medicaid.
Proposed cuts in women’s health care and Medicaid barriers can only make a bad situation worse.
Instead of more tax cuts, Ohio should make the wealthy pay a fair share to support education, public transit and other needs.
Raising the federal minimum wage to $12 would help keep Ohio families out of poverty and boost the state economy.
House plan would deliver tax cuts, mostly to the affluent, at the expense of public services.
Many schools are still cutting staff and imposing pay-to-play, new report shows.
Republican lawmakers would jeopardize health care for hundreds of thousands of Ohioans.
To adequately serve growing demand, policymakers must take steps to stabilize the workforce. Introduction Home-care aides — providers of hands-on care to older adults and people with disabilities — are one of Ohio’s fastest growing occupations, growing at more than five times the rate of overall jobs in the economy.[1]
Aged out and at risk
As a research intern at Policy Matters Ohio, Brant Duda looked into expanding supports for foster-care youth to age 21. Brant brought a special perspective to the topic: He was a foster child who found himself on his own at age 18. Now pursuing a master’s degree in social work,