Columbus Dispatch By Alan Johnson Worker productivity, corporate profits and executive wages have risen in recent years, but Ohio’s lowest-paid workers haven’t shared the benefits. That is the conclusion of a study released yesterday by the Center for American Progress and Policy Matters Ohio, a nonpartisan but union-affiliated policy group.
A matter of fairness or a plot against privacy?By Margo Pierce Cincinnati City Beat An increased minimum wage will hurt businesses or help Ohio’s economy and the working poor — it just depends on the speaker and which study you read. Both sides say the other is creating a smoke
Gongwer News Service The measure to limit government spending the General Assembly passed in May is unlikely to foster economic growth in Ohio, according to a study released this week. The Policy Matters Ohio study found no correlation between the size of a state’s public sector and private sector growth.
Warren Tribune Chronicle By Raymond L. Smith Supporters of an effort to increase the state minimum wage to $6.85 an hour say they will conduct an aggressive grassroot campaign to get Ohioans to support the constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage obtained more than
Columbus Dispatch By Rita Price and Alan Johnson For Theresa Patterson, the minimum wage isn’t about politics ormorality. It’s about bus fare, grocery money and rent. On a recent morning, the 52-year-old grandmother boarded COTAbuses four times, piled into a temp agency van twice and cleanedbathrooms for eight hours at
Critics say there should be a better distribution of the economic ‘pie.’By Jim DeBrosse Dayton Daily News If you’ve been working harder for a paycheck that stretches less and less from week to week, you have lots of company these days, economists say. Wages for every level but the top
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The Hannah Report As national talk turns to predictions of a potential downturn in the economy, Policy Matters Ohio’s “The State of Working Ohio 2006” shows that, for Ohio workers, the period since 2001 was “the recovery thatwasn’t.” “The state has fewer jobs and lower real median wages than it
Cincinnati Enquirer Poverty increased in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky between 1999 and 2005, while median incomes rose at less than the national average in all but two local counties, new Census Bureau estimates released Tuesday show. It’s another bad economic sign for the region, which has seen its jobless
The Hannah Report The committee heard from representatives from the business community and Zach Schiller from Policy Matters Ohio. Daniel Navin, assistant vice president for tax policy, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, told the committee that the chamber’s position is that the Legislature has spoken on the issue and the CAT
Policy Group Questions Impact of Recent Changes; Tax Manager Urges Speed-up of Cuts Gongwer News Service The House Ways & Means Committee fielded varying points of view Tuesday on the subject of “tax reform.” A business advisor relayed support for accelerating the scheduled tax cuts and a Policy Matters Ohio
While some janitors struggle to get by, others are climbing into the middle class. Behind the new battle over America’s low-wage workersBy Jeremy Caplan Time Magazine It’s 9 P.M., and Craig Jones has just finished dumping 400 trash cans’ worth of garbage into the Cincinnati Textile Building’s basement compactor. The
