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$164B: Amount of federal funds that flowed into Ohio in 2022, excluding COVID-related funding. $128B: Amount Ohioans & Ohio businesses paid to the federal government that year. $37B: Net gain for the state, the 7th-highest in the nation. As the Trump administration maneuvers to cut or disrupt federal funding to state programs and services — […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters ~$1B: Cost of the proposal in Senate Bill 3 to “flatten” the state’s incomes tax. Sound familiar? That’s because legislators rolled out a similar hare-brained scheme in 2023. Hannah Halbert wrote about it on Tax Day that year, and we testified against its inclusion in the state budget. We’re working on a more precise cost estimate to […]
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60%: Share of the 3 million drivers-license suspensions in Ohio each year that are given for reasons related to debt, not driving. That is, until this week, when justice advocates passed new legislation that automatically and retroactively reinstates licenses that were suspended for failure to pay court fees. In fact, that’s just one of a litany […]
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997: Number of childcare programs Ohio lost from 2019-23. That’s 11% of all programs in the state. In their latest release, Molly Bryden and Ali Smith explore how environmental and economic conditions intersect to harm childcare providers and the kids they help raise. The report focuses on licensed childcare providers in Cuyahoga County and proposes innovative ways […]
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$16.5B: Amount of funding announced for Ohio projects under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) since 2021. This includes funding for projects that would lower energy costs for farmers, clean up brownfield sites and retrain workers in coal communities, and build out green infrastructure in urban neighborhoods. With the incoming administration, that […]
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A note from our Executive Director Dear Friends, This is a difficult time for anyone who believes that government can be a force for good. Many Ohioans — including some of our own family members, neighbors, and friends — used their vote to voice their cynicism about ever reclaiming the institutions at the heart of […]
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$112, $48, $36, $22: Per-person amount of state spending on public transit in 2022 by Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan respectively. $4: Per-person amount spent on public transit by the state of Ohio that year. Our new report examines how Ohio’s 65 transit systems get their funding. Working with researcher Molly Bryden, summer interns Lila Wright and Joseph […]
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60%: Share of driver’s license suspensions in Ohio that were for reasons unrelated to driving — such as failure to pay court fees. A suspension can cause havoc in a person’s day-to-day life, making it harder to do things like get to work—where they could earn money to pay those fees! That’s just one example of the type […]
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$12.8B: Annual loss in state revenue as a result of changes to Ohio’s tax code since 2005. That’s almost $13,000,000,000 every year that could help pay for schools, roads, eldercare and childcare, health care, addiction treatment, even people to answer phones at the unemployment office. Instead, it’s primarily gone to the wealthiest households in the form of […]
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$2,112: Per-pupil funding provided by the state for students in Upper Arlington’s public schools last school year. $8,408: Per-pupil value of a private-school tuition voucher provided by the state through the publicly-funded EdChoice Expansion program for a student in grades 9-12. Summer intern and UA schools alum Elena Reim digs into that disparity and explains why […]
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24: Number of consecutive Labor Days we’ve celebrated with the release of our report on the State of Working Ohio. This year we’re releasing SOWO at the start of the long weekend. That way, you can prepare for conversation at your Labor Day cookout by brushing up on your knowledge of Labor Force Participation, the problem of monopsony power, […]
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6.6%: Median share, among all racial groups, of Ohio students who were economically secure and chronically absent from school in 2022-23. 26.2%: Median share who were economically insecure and chronically absent. As researcher Tanisha Pruitt, PhD, puts it in her new report, “economic security insulates students of all identity subgroups against absenteeism.” That’s why, among policies to improve attendance and […]