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Budgetpalooza! 110965: Technically not a stat but an Appropriation Line Item (ALI) number in the state budget. (In this case it’s the ALI for Ohio’s Public Library Fund — one of our favorites!) We have been talking a lot about ALI’s lately, especially in Policy Matters Ohio’s Guide to the State Budget, in which Kathryn Poe explains […]
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42%: Share of Americans living in a state with a minimum wage of $15 or more. Ohioans are not among them—at least not yet. Although the campaign to let Ohioans vote on the minimum wage came up short this election cycle, Ohioans still deserve a fair return on their work, as explained by Michael Shields in our recent […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters 28.7%: Share of Black women in Ohio who experienced poverty in the last 12 months, as of 2022 (the most recent data available). Because economic disparities are often greatest where policy failures intersect, that number is higher for Black women than for Black men or white people of any gender. In […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters 8.07%: Sales tax rate Ohio would have to implement just to make up half the revenue lost under a plan by anti-government legislators to eliminate the state income tax. That would be the highest state sales tax in the nation, disproportionately harm the lowest-income Ohioans, and further shift the cost of public […]
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66%: Reduction in the number of involuntary commitments to Ohio’s psychiatric hospitals, from 2019 through 2023. At first glance, that remarkable drop in the number of Ohioans being forced into treatment may seem like a positive sign — but the truth is much more complicated. Kathryn Poe digs into the contributing factors in their new […]
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4: Number of weeks we get the absolute pleasure of getting to know Halim Pratama, a visiting fellow from Indonesia through the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Professional Fellow Program of the US Department of State. As a newly elected city council member in Malinau, Indonesia, Halim is spending the month of May in the […]
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17.5%: Share of Ohio households facing undue energy burdens, without even considering heating fuel costs. That is one of many reasons Climate & Sustainability Researcher Molly Bryden delivered proponent testimony on House Bill 197, which would establish a pilot program for community solar in Ohio. She was among dozens delivering in-person or written testimonies in […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters 45.6%: Share of revenue collected into Ohio’s General Revenue Fund that came from the sales tax last year. That share has increased dramatically in the last 20 years, as Ohio leaders repeatedly cut the income tax (the only progressive tax in the state) and raised the sales tax (which requires […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters $9,697: Average annual cost of child care for one infant in Ohio. $138,528: Minimum annual household income required to make that amount “affordable” according to benchmarks set by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. $65,720: Median annual household income in Ohio. That means the typical Ohio household makes […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters 1000x: Factor by which you should multiply the revenue projections we reported in last month’s eNews for the downtown Cleveland tax increment financing (TIF) plan. We erroneously reported that the city expects as much as $7.5 million in increased revenue. We should have said $7.5 billion. We regret the error […]
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Numeric news from Policy Matters 23: Number of year it took Ohio to restore the jobs lost in the 2001 recession after our previous peak in May 2000. That growth was slowed by austerity policies that cut government spending in the Great Recession, instead of helping the Ohioans who needed it. When Congress did the […]
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$200M: Amount of tax revenue expected from legal sales of recreational cannabis in the first year after Ohioans passed Issue 2. As written — and as approved by voters — the law would use those funds to benefit communities where dispensaries are located, fund substance-abuse research, and remediate some of the harm done by the […]