Amy Hanauer comments in The New Republic on Richard Cordray’s nomination to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The New Nullification: GOP v. Obama Nominees The New Republic Elizabeth Warren won’t get a chance to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but Richard Cordray may. And perhaps that’s good news. Warren, the Harvard Law Professor and champion of consumer interests, may run for the U.S. Senate, seeking the seat Ted Kennedy once occupied […]
David Rothstein comments in The Huffington Post on Cordray nomination
In Richard Cordray, Consumer Agency Would Be Led By Financial Cop Known For Toughness Huffington Post In nominating Richard Cordray to lead the fledgling consumer protection agency, President Barack Obama has chosen a man with a reputation as a defender of consumers’ rights, someone willing to take on the nation’s most powerful financial firms. Sunday’s […]
Big Spenders
Ohio.com Republicans campaigning for the Statehouse a year ago spent much time championing performance audits. They called for casting a cold, hard eye on state operations, squeezing every possible dime of savings. The recently approved two-year state budget reflects a willingness to whack spending, especially for schools, local governments and many programs for the disadvantaged. […]
Wendy Patton comments on the Ohio budget in The New York Times
In Ohio, a New Governor Is Off to a Smooth Start The New York Times In Washington, Congress may still be fighting over the national budget, but in Ohio, where Republicans control the House, the Senate and the governor’s office, the budget passage has been about as smooth as a knife through butter. That is […]
Tax breaks not free, they put drain on budget
Dayton Daily News For weeks now, the news out of Columbus has been about the budget
Ohio: A New Kind of Battleground- Hanauer article in The Nation
The Nation When my daughter started kindergarten, she was deemed secure enough to be placed next to the most rambunctious boy in the class. Her classmate, son of a formerly incarcerated man, quickly won us over with his humor, intelligence and infectious grin, if not always with his strict adherence to classroom expectations. But our […]
See Zach Schiller discuss Trade and Ohio employment on Fox Business News
Free Trade and Ohio Fox Business News Research director from Policy Matters, Zach Schiller and Michael Fullilove from the Brookings Institute discuss which candidate will be better at protecting jobs and free trade. Watch the video
Shabby Treatment
The Toledo Blade GOV. John Kasich recently seemed to try to justify the new restrictions he seeks on public-sector workers by noting the “shabby benefits” that some private-sector workers get. It’s unclear whether the governor meant to suggest that teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other public employees should also receive inadequate benefits. But it is […]
Prison Numbers
The Toledo Blade Gov. John Kasich promotes privatization as a way for state government to save money and deliver public services more efficiently. But a credible new study suggests the Kasich administration has yet to make a compelling case for selling five state prisons to private contractors. The liberal advocacy group Policy Matters Ohio examined […]
Strengthen Public Schools
The Toledo Blade Gov. John Kasich’s all-cuts budget would afflict public schools in northwest Ohio and across the state in distressing and mutually reinforcing ways. The governor’s education proposals should give even lawmakers of his own Republican Party pause
David Rothstein comments on Refund Anticipation Loans in Mother Jones
Mother Jones JOHN HEWITT WASN’T seeking to turn the working poor into cash cows when his father and some friends helped him buy a six-store tax-service chain in Virginia Beach back in 1982. A 33-year-old college dropout who’d recently left his post as a regional director for H&R Block, Hewitt bought the Mel Jackson Tax […]
Policy Matters cited in The Economist
Time for second thoughts? A backlash against Republican attacks may be under way The Economist It is hard to get away from the subject of union rights in the Midwest these days. Protesters agitating against moves to curb them could be heard booing and chanting throughout the “state-of-the-state” speech delivered this week by John Kasich, the […]