Saturday Stats: A new start
46: President Joseph R. Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. Executive Director Hannah Halbert has a few ideas about what he needs to do to get all of us through the pandemic, prepare for the next crisis and make sure all our communities emerge stronger than before. She made the […]
Saturday Stats: New year, old struggles
9: Nine days into 2021, it’s become clear that 2020 wasn’t ACTUALLY the problem. This week, the duality of the American story was on full display. On Tuesday, voters in Georgia chose to send to the U.S. Senate a Jewish American man and the Black pastor of a church once led by Rev. Martin Luther […]
Saturday Stats: So long, 2020
Dear friends, While all our problems won’t end with 2020, we certainly don’t mind seeing it go. Thank you for sticking with us, reading our reports, blogs and newsletters. We’re so glad to be in the fight with all of you. We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and we wish you a very […]
Obscene salaries, unscrupulous lenders
Saturday Stats from Policy Matters Ohio Four: Number of distinguished Ohioans on tap to lovingly needle our founding Executive Director at Wednesday’s Virtual ROAST of Amy Hanauer: Founding board member Joyce Goldstein of Joyce Goldstein & Associates. Founding board member David Megenhardt, Executive Director of the United Labor Agency. Founding co-chair John Ryan, State Director […]
Saturday stats: Gobble, gobble!
11.7 million: That’s how many people live in the state of Ohio, and the number of people who will be affected by the state budget. The budget belongs to all of us. Every two years we publish a guide to the state budget process. We explain when decisions are made, who makes them and how […]
Saturday Stats: Bold policy, spicy sauce
66: Days until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. That’s plenty of time for the transition team to review the large and growing set of resources created by the ReImagine Appalachia Coalition, in which key voices from the region lay out an infrastructure plan that will tackle climate change and create hundreds of thousands of […]
Counting down: Saturday Stats from Policy Matters Ohio
3: That’s how many days until Election Day – so if you haven’t yet, be sure to be a voter!! 17,531: That’s now many Ohioans applied for unemployment compensation last week, according to data from the Department of Labor. Executive Director Hannah Halbert said the number of people still out of work, plus the latest […]
Saturday Stats: Public resources for the public good
$1.94 billion: That’s how much in public resources could go to public schools, public health and more if Ohio policymakers adopted our proposals to rebalance the state tax code. Senior Project Director Wendy Patton outlined our plan in a new paper. Board member and president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, Melissa Cropper joined Wendy […]
Saturday Stats: Not debatable
1 million: That’s how many fewer manufacturing jobs there are in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin since 2000. Researcher Michael Shields and partners at the Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative released a new report that shows how for 30 years, corporations have used their influence to rig the rules in their favor – shipping jobs […]
Saturday Stats: Showing How We Count
49.5%, 55%, 62.4%: Respectively, the 2020 Census self-response rates for Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. With a statewide rate of just 69.6%, we can—and must—do better, says Outreach Director Daniel Ortiz in his latest blog post. 100%: Share of people in the state of Ohio who need to be counted in the 2020 Census in order […]
Sunday Stats: State of Working Ohio
We’re sending our enews out on Sunday this week. We wanted to be sure to include our annual Labor Day report that we released today, “State of Working Ohio: Reset and Unrig.” We will be back to Saturday Stats in two weeks! 500,000: Nearly half-a-million Ohioans are still out of work after being laid off […]
Saturday Stats: Policy by the numbers
495,100: Ohio had nearly half a million fewer jobs in July than we did a year ago, despite adding 62,700 jobs last month. In the latest JobWatch, researcher Michael Shields digs into the numbers and identifies three ways policymakers must step up to help families in crisis. $600: The $600 in weekly unemployment compensation Ohioans […]