Race to the finish: News from Policy Matters
Protecting our care: As the thoroughbreds gallop to the finish today, we’re racing to fight back against threats to Ohio’s health. On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that puts health care for millions of Americans at risk. We explain just how damaging that legislation would be to Ohio. Meanwhile, the budget […]
Join us in the fight: News from Policy Matters
Join us in the fight: News from Policy Matters We’re hiring! Would you like to help make Ohio a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive state? Would you like to work with a great group of people who also want to make Ohio a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive state? If you answered yes to these […]
Cool new look, same hard-hitting research: News from Policy Matters
Fresh new look: If you’ve been on PolicyMattersOhio.org lately — and we know you’re visiting our site multiple times a day — you’ve probably noticed some changes. Click around and let us know what you think! A big thank you to the Cleveland Foundation and the FORM group for funding and developing the new site. […]
Skinny budget, big victory: News from Policy Matters
No Deal: Victory is ours! Thank you to everyone who called, tweeted, emailed or wrote to their member of Congress urging them to vote against the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. America had a strong message to TrumpCare: You’re fired. Speaker Paul Ryan said “Obamacare is the law of the land for […]
Skinny budget, big victory: News from Policy Matters
No Deal: Victory is ours! Thank you to everyone who called, tweeted, emailed or wrote to their member of Congress urging them to vote against the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. America had a strong message to TrumpCare: You’re fired. Speaker Paul Ryan said “Obamacare is the law of the land for […]
Persistence and Resistance
Protect our care: With the health and economic security of so many Ohioans hanging in the balance, we took a look at how the House GOP plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is particularly bad for our state. The plan ends Medicaid expansion, which covered 700,000 Ohioans. It also changes the structure of Medicaid […]
News from Policy Matters: Hungry for Justice
Budget Bites: Last week we launched Budget Bites to feed your appetite for smart policy. These short pieces compare Governor Kasich’s proposed 2018-2019 budget to what Ohio actually needs to thrive. Our first piece finds that the state starves local transit agencies who now face even bigger losses due to narrowing of the state sales […]
Shifty business: News from Policy Matters
Stop the shift: The first thing we noticed about the governor’s budget is that it calls for big cuts to the income tax while increasing the sales tax. With some tiny exceptions, the budget underinvests in almost every important public need. With help from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, we point out that […]
February 2017 CASH Ohio e-news
First Quarter Ohio CASH Meeting The first quarter Ohio CASH Coalition meeting will be held by webinar 11:00 am Thursday, February 23, 2017. This meeting will include presentations from state and national partners on important protections, policies, and organizations that help financially vulnerable families get ahead. Participants can also share new and developments with their […]
Eyes wide open: January news from Policy Matters
Ohio policymakers have made moves to cut funding to schools and local communities, reward the wealthiest, threaten unemployment compensation and more. Policy Matters is there every step of the way to explain what’s happening, block bad ideas when we can and promote a vision of a better Ohio. Some recent action: Education Policy fellow Victoria […]
Out and about in October: News from Policy Matters
Justice: Our executive director Amy Hanauer joins president Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, the Reverend Jawanza Colvin of Cleveland’s Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, president Tom Steyer of NextGen Foundation, and the Reverend Tony Minor to discuss economic, educational, environmental and social justice, Friday, October 7 at noon at Cleveland State University’s Student […]
A rousing forum, a hollow tax giveaway, an unhealthy proposal: News from Policy Matters
Poverty forum – Panelists from diverse backgrounds and an enthusiastic audience gathered July 18 to kick off the Republican National Convention with a conversation about poverty at Cleveland State University. Policy Matters, partnered with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity and CSU to talk about how federal policy can create opportunity and provide pathways out of […]