An Ohio minimum-wage worker who works 36 hours a week every week during 2005 will not qualify for unemployment compensation. That will be the result of the eligibility requirements for 2005 just released by the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services. Under a formula that ties eligibility to the
This report by Policy Matters Ohio and National Employment Law Project finds that Ohio’s unemployment compensation (UC) system provides significant assistance to jobless workers, including a $2 billion net boost to the state’s economy between 2001 and 2003. However, the system has critical shortcomings. Workers in Ohio must earn more
Ohio’s unemployment compensation system provided the state with a $2 billion boost between 2001 and 2003. But despite the significant assistance to jobless workers and the economy provided by UC benefits, Ohio’s unemployment compensation program has critical shortcomings, especially when it comes to its treatment of low-wage workers. Those are
This September 2004 study by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows that many of the country’s biggest corporations??”including several Ohio-based corporations??”are paying little or nothing in federal income taxes.
Ohio companies among those that pay little Many of the country’s biggest corporations are once again paying little or nothing in federal income taxes, according to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which collaborated on a number of widely publicized analyses
The number of Ohioans losing their homes to foreclosure and sheriff sales grew again in 2003. Foreclosure filings increased 3 percent in Ohio, while sheriff sales of foreclosed properties continued to soar, up 26 percent from 2002. The number of properties put up for sale now equates to about one
Thank you for the opportunity to testify before your committee. My name is Zach Schiller and I am research director of Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute based in Cleveland. Policy Matters does research on issues that matter to low- and middle-income workers. Prior to joining Policy Matters,
Compared to individuals, Ohio business is paying a much smaller share of state and local taxes than it did two decades or more ago. That is the finding of this May, 2004 study by Policy Matters Ohio. This reaffirms a conclusion of a 2001 study sponsored by the Ohio Manufacturers’
This state program, a part of Gov. Taft’s Third Frontier initiative, distributed 80grants totaling $55 million between fiscal 1998 and fiscal 2003 to private companies, universities and other entities that try to spark high-tech development. Though the program has undergone various changes, its purpose has remained much the same since
The State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Action Fund, the oldest part of Gov. Bob Taft’s hightech economic development program, has created only a modest number of commercial jobs and is operated without sufficient accountability to the public, according to a new study released today by Policy Matters Ohio. The Third
State Issue 1, a constitutional amendment on the November 4th ballot, would broaden the ability of the state, public universities, and local governments to issue bonds for research, development and technology commercialization. This report from Policy Matters outlines how the amendment will mean important changes in public sector ability to
Policy Matters Ohio Report Explores Fiscal and Legal Implications State Issue 1, a constitutional amendment on the November 4th ballot, would broaden the ability of the state, universities, and local governments to issue bonds for research, development and technology commercialization. A new report issued today by Policy Matters Ohio, a
