Newhouse News Service By John Farmer CLEVELAND — NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was a signature achievement for Hillary Clinton’s husband, an economic breakthrough, a political victory to celebrate. Now it may be a major liability in Hillary Clinton’s bid to beat Barack Obama in the Ohio Democratic
The machinery for aiding displaced workers grinds inefficiently in Ohio The Akron Beacon Journal Ohio’s economy is in transition. New technologies are creating new industries and businesses and changing the labor-intensive, heavy industries of the past. The altered landscape places a high premium on a work force with the training
It’s too easy to blame the city’s housing collapse on Rust-belt economics. How bad government and greed made it one of the nation’s foreclosure capitals.By Les Christie CNNMoney.com CLEVELAND (CNNMoney.com) — As the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County in Ohio, Jim Rokakis spends a lot of his time trying to deal
House passes bill to end cuts to unemploymentBy Catherine Candisky The Columbus Dispatch It’s an amazing turn of events for a proposal that has lingered in the legislature for more than a year and a half. The House unanimously approved a bill yesterday to make senior citizens eligible for full
The governor and others talk a good game about alternative energy. Then they embrace Senate legislation that should be much stronger Columbus Dispatch Ted Strickland and other Democrats campaigned across the state last year touting the economic promise of renewable and advanced energy sources. An Ohio bleeding manufacturing jobs? Alternative
National legislation to help those facing foreclosure yet to be pushed through; state works on own measures.By Jessica Wehrman Dayton Daily News WASHINGTON
The Akron Beacon Journal By Dennis J. Willard COLUMBUS: Pregnant women working for small companies shouldn’t start planning to take a 12-week leave of absence yet. Yes, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission flexed its muscle last week and used a 1977 law against sexual discrimination to order companies to provide
The Cleveland Plain Dealer By Jeff Coryell House Speaker Jon Husted (R-Kettering) expressed opposition this week to the Ohio Healthy Families Act, proposed by a coalition called Ohioans for Healthy Families. (The group is primarily composed of unions but also includes the AARP, medical groups, and many Democratic elected officials
The Hannah Report With Democrats and Republicans offering competing energy platforms this week and Ohio legislators seeing representation at a related policy summit in Nashville, Policy Matters Ohio announced the release of a national report recognizing energy initiatives in Ohio and other states. The think tank is the Ohio partner
With Funds for Refinancing By Thaddeus Herrick Wall Street Journal Hoping to slow the quickening pace of home foreclosures, about a half-dozen states are setting up funds to help homeowners with high-risk subprime mortgages refinance to more-affordable loans. The states — which include Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio
Despite slight improvement, state is No. 6 in delinquent loans, report showsBy Denise Trowbridge Columbus Dispatch Troubles caused by subprime mortgage loans are still a sore spot in Ohio. The state had 19.9 percent of its subprime adjustable-rate loans, the type typically made to borrowers with poor or no credit,
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