German Lopez In 1997, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened a private prison in Youngstown, Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center was to hold out-of-state prisoners with the promise of profits and tax revenue for Youngstown, a largely industrial city southeast of Cleveland that had struggled economically since its
Margo Kissell at the Dayton Daily News put together a thorough review of charters — publicly funded, privately run schools — for Sunday’s paper. It acknowledges both the success stories and the challenges facing Ohio’s charter sector. In the past 15 years, some public charter schools have shined as examples
Question: Should Ohio take action that will secure health care for up to 900,000 more working Ohioans, bring some $17.3 billion into Ohio, save up to $2.3 billion in state spending, create about 50,000 jobs in Ohio, and have the federal government foot the entire bill for three years and
Andy Brownfield’s piece in Cincinnati CityBeat digs into State of Working Ohio 2012, our annual review of the state’s labor market, highlighting the higher rates of unemployment and lower wages impacting women and blacks. The report
Rana B. Khoury “Are you listening in Michigan and Ohio?” asked Bill Clinton during his notable speech at the Democratic National Convention this week. He wanted to ensure that Ohioans heard him loud and clear when he announced the “job score” that came out of the auto industry restructuring enacted
Jackie Borchardt, Jeremy P. Kelley It’s no mystery why Ohio is the perennial presidential campaign prize. With 18 electoral votes, it’s a big state and it’s fickle. In the last six presidential elections, Republicans have won Ohio three times and Democrats three times. That’s why the candidate committees and big
Russ Zimmer Paychecks aren’t buying as much as they used to A new study on labor in Ohio suggests that although conditions are better for workers in the third year of the recovery, they’re still awful by historical standards. The “State of Working Ohio 2012,” a report by left-leaning economic
Karen Kasler On this Labor Day, Ohio’s unemployment rate is at a three year low. But a progressive leaning think tank also notes just over 64 percent of Ohioans are in the workforce
Eric Schwartzberg Ohio’s labor market has seen better days. The state’s median wage is dropping, job growth is too slow and labor force participation is falling for all demographics and to historic lows for some groups. That’s according to a State of Working Ohio 2012 review by Policy Matters Ohio,
Editorial When Ohio had a corporate franchise tax, companies were able to write off losses against future income. The idea was that the companies would generate taxable profits in the future. Ohio eliminated the franchise tax in favor of the commercial activity tax. However, the state never eliminated the write-offs
This editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal begins with Gov. Kasich’s perspective: John Kasich loves to tell “Ohio’s story,” a sunny account of a stunning turnaround, the $8 billion deficit erased, the rise from 48th in job creation in 2009 to fourth in the nation today, a rainy day fund
“ON THIS Labor Day weekend, workers in Toledo and the rest of Ohio have much to celebrate — but even more to lose sleep over,” writes David Kushma, editorial writer at The Toledo Blade in a piece that draws heavily on our State of Working Ohio 2012. He writes: It’s
