Saturday Stats from Policy Matters Ohio Four: Number of distinguished Ohioans on tap to lovingly needle our founding Executive Director at Wednesday’s Virtual ROAST of Amy Hanauer: Founding board member Joyce Goldstein of Joyce Goldstein & Associates. Founding board member David Megenhardt, Executive Director of the United Labor Agency. Founding
11.7 million: That’s how many people live in the state of Ohio, and the number of people who will be affected by the state budget. The budget belongs to all of us. Every two years we publish a guide to the state budget process. We explain when decisions are made,
66: Days until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. That’s plenty of time for the transition team to review the large and growing set of resources created by the ReImagine Appalachia Coalition, in which key voices from the region lay out an infrastructure plan that will tackle climate change and
Chairman Greenspan and Chairman McColley, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit written testimony to the Joint Legislative Committee on Ohio’s Road to Our Future. I am Amanda Woodrum, Senior Researcher for Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit dedicated to promoting a more sustainable, equitable, inclusive and
3: That’s how many days until Election Day – so if you haven’t yet, be sure to be a voter!! 17,531: That’s now many Ohioans applied for unemployment compensation last week, according to data from the Department of Labor. Executive Director Hannah Halbert said the number of people still out
COVID relief, jobs, climate change and health care are key issues Tonight, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will meet in another debate. With Ohio looking increasingly competitive, Policy Matters Ohio Executive Director Hannah Halbert issued the following statement about key issues for Ohio voters: “No matter
$1.94 billion: That’s how much in public resources could go to public schools, public health and more if Ohio policymakers adopted our proposals to rebalance the state tax code. Senior Project Director Wendy Patton outlined our plan in a new paper. Board member and president of the Ohio Federation of
1 million: That’s how many fewer manufacturing jobs there are in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since 2000. Researcher Michael Shields and partners at the Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative released a new report that shows how for 30 years, corporations have used their influence to rig the rules in
49.5%, 55%, 62.4%: Respectively, the 2020 Census self-response rates for Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. With a statewide rate of just 69.6%, we can—and must—do better, says Outreach Director Daniel Ortiz in his latest blog post. 100%: Share of people in the state of Ohio who need to be counted in
We’re sending our enews out on Sunday this week. We wanted to be sure to include our annual Labor Day report that we released today, “State of Working Ohio: Reset and Unrig.” We will be back to Saturday Stats in two weeks! 500,000: Nearly half-a-million Ohioans are still out of
495,100: Ohio had nearly half a million fewer jobs in July than we did a year ago, despite adding 62,700 jobs last month. In the latest JobWatch, researcher Michael Shields digs into the numbers and identifies three ways policymakers must step up to help families in crisis. $600: The $600
$600: Millions of Americans are in limbo waiting to find out if Congress will extend the $600 a week that’s helping them make ends meet and keeping the economy running. The Senate Republican proposal cuts critical support to more than half a million jobless Ohioans. Wendy Patton called on Congress
