Richland County
State Overview Download PDF Impact of the 2012-13 state budget (HB 153) Ohio’s budget for 2012 and 2013 cut local government aid by a billion dollars. This means cuts in services we depend on, from road repair and emergency services to crossing guards, senior transportation and child protective services. What are the implications for Richland […]
Noble County
State Overview Download PDF Impact of the state budget for 2012-13 (HB 153) Ohio’s budget for 2012 and 2013 cut local government aid by a billion dollars. This means cuts in services we depend on, from road repair and emergency services to crossing guards, senior transportation and child protective services. What are the implications for […]
Universities won’t see easing of state rules
Prompted by our release of a study that showed that deregulation of higher-ed systems in other states hasn’t made tuition more affordable, increased access for low-income students, or increased graduation rates,” the Columbus Dispatch contacted Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro, who said he wants to bring back his 2011 proposal to loosen regulations […]
Outsourcing-related jobless aid tumbles: Report on Ohio credits jobs in manufacturing
Mark Williams The number of Ohio workers awarded federal aid because their jobs were shipped overseas or lost to imports tumbled to a six-year low in 2011, according to a report released yesterday. A turnaround in manufacturing was given at least some of the credit for the improvement. The report found that aid for 3,103 […]
Behind the Curtain
Editorial JobsOhio and Gov. John Kasich lauded Mark Kvamme’s achievements after he quit as head of Ohio’s quasi-public economic development agency. To Ohioans looking in from the outside, those accomplishments, like the inner workings of the agency, are far from clear. Mr. Kvamme will step down this month as JobsOhio’s president and interim chief investment […]
Report: Ohio casino revenues won’t fill budget holes
Benjamin Lanka The opening of the new Hollywood Casino in Columbus on Monday not only will mean another regional entertainment option, but also much-needed tax revenues for cash-strapped governments. But when all four Ohio casinos are in operation, the taxes generated won’t come close to plugging the holes created through state financial cuts, according to […]
More young Ohioans have health insurance
Laura Englehart The number of young adults with health insurance in Ohio has increased more than 5 percent since 2009, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The Affordable Care Act is credited for the uptick in Ohioans 18 to 25 years old with insurance. Ohio and 36 other states saw improvements in the number of insured young […]
Housing market might be on the rebound, but foreclosure and negative equity rates still high
H. Sparling ZANESVILLE — It’s part of the American Dream: a little house with a white picket fence. But for more than a quarter of local homeowners, that dream isn’t worth much anymore. In Muskingum County, 26 percent of homes are “underwater” or “upside-down,” meaning the owner owes more on the mortgage than the home […]
1 in 10 in Ohio without checking, savings accounts
Cornelius Frolik Almost one in 10 households in Ohio do not have a checking or savings account, and consumers are increasingly relying on some fee-heavy alternative financial services, according to a new federal study and interviews with experts. More U.S. consumers are shunning banks and other insured depositories, and these people are more likely to […]
Liberty for Sale: Should Ohio inmates be commodities in a for-profit venture?
German Lopez In 1997, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened a private prison in Youngstown, Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center was to hold out-of-state prisoners with the promise of profits and tax revenue for Youngstown, a largely industrial city southeast of Cleveland that had struggled economically since its steel industry went downhill in […]
Are charter schools really making the grade?
Margo Kissell at the Dayton Daily News put together a thorough review of charters — publicly funded, privately run schools — for Sunday’s paper. It acknowledges both the success stories and the challenges facing Ohio’s charter sector. In the past 15 years, some public charter schools have shined as examples of what they were intended […]
Hanauer says yes to Medicaid expansion on Feagler & Friends
Question: Should Ohio take action that will secure health care for up to 900,000 more working Ohioans, bring some $17.3 billion into Ohio, save up to $2.3 billion in state spending, create about 50,000 jobs in Ohio, and have the federal government foot the entire bill for three years and 90 percent of it forever?