Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS — A grant component of Gov. Bob Taft’s Third Frontier Project has modest economic benefits while the oversight of its administration is inadequate, according to a report being released today. Full Article
Ohio’s enterprise zone program is more likely to bring jobs and investment to wealthy areas than the poor neighborhoods the program is supposed to help, according to a report by Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland research group.
As an investor, public could profit from high-tech startups successes The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS – If Ohio voters approve a $500 million bond issue on Nov. 4, the state and local governments could have more direct financial interest in the success of high-tech businesses, a research group said yesterday. Full
Report: State would be risk investor Cincinnati Enquirer Backed by Republicans and Democrats, business executives and unions, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft is stumping statewide for the Nov. 4 ballot issue authorizing the sale of $500 million in bonds for high-tech industrial development.
State ranks third in job losses from recession, having lost 185,000 Akron Beacon Journal CLEVELAND – Ohio workers have been among the nation’s hardest hit during the most recent recession, according to a work force report released Sunday by Policy Matters Ohio, a research institute in Cleveland.Ohio’s unemployment rate, which
Columbus Dispatch CLEVELAND (AP) – Ohio lost 185,000 jobs from 2001 through March of this year, according to a study released yesterday by a private economic think tank. Full Article
Report says state lags behind in U.S. recovery By William Hershey Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | The national recession may have ended in November 2001 but the bad economic news continued for thousands of Ohio workers like Tony Roberts and Jay Darryl Booth who were laid off in January from
State collects less than half of potential revenue Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | Ohio lost 56.9 percent of potential corporate tax collections to business tax shelters in fiscal 2001, a loss rate second nationally only to West Virginia s 57.8 percent, according to a national study released this week. Full
Lorain Morning Journal ELYRIA U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Lorain, yesterday called a Republican tax cut bill a political ploy that’s holding up efforts to give a child tax credit to low-income working families, but Republicans said they disagree. We are calling today on President Bush and the House of Representatives
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram ELYRIA U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Lorain, is trying to extend a child tax credit to parents whose income falls below the federal requirements that would allow them to take advantage of the credit.
WCPN Northeast Ohio pulled in a hefty chunk of change this month from Governor Taft’s Third Frontier project-a plan to invest a total of 1-point-6 billion dollars in biotech and high-tech research over the next decade. Seventy four-million dollars was available for this year’s grants…and Northeast Ohio got more than
Benefit for most workers, business, economy, but not for some with rising pay, investments The Toledo Blade Many thousands of Toledo-area taxpayers will be among 25 million families getting extra mid-year tax refunds starting next month. Full Article
