Report: Tax Code Changes Could Loosen Ohio’s Budget Squeeze
By Mary Kuhlman and Chris Thomas Public News Service Cleveland, OH – As Ohio deals with a budget shortfall of nearly $2 billion, state agencies continue to cut back on services and projects to try to make up the difference. A new report finds that instead of cutting into the basics, lawmakers should take a […]
Amy Hanauer – Panel Discussion: What Women (Really) Want [video]
ACLU Can the next president really make government more responsive to the concerns and needs of American women? Who speaks for us? Can there be a “Women’s Agenda” that advances women’s rights? Full Article and Video
‘Brewing storm’ likely to cost firms
Waning jobless fund could raise business taxes Business Courier of Cincinnati Ohio’s dwindling unemployment benefits fund took another turn for the worse this month when a state consultant increased his deficit estimates. The latest numbers, based on unemployment data released in mid-August, show the fund shrinking to $20 million by year’s end
Frayed safety net
The Ohio unemployment compensation fund faces financial trouble. The Statehouse must step up soon to make the necessary repair. Akron Beacon Journal On Friday morning, word arrived that the state’s unemployment rate climbed to 6.6 percent in June, leading to more Ohio households feeling strained, looking to jobless benefits as part of their safety net. […]
Must read book on Charter Schools
Undernews America’s public education system is being taken over by a variety of educational mercenaries under such guises as charter schools. Amy Hanauer of Policy Matters writes in an important new book, “Keeping the Promise?,” that in Ohio alone powerful business interests drain $500 million a year from public education. The record of charter schools […]
Mortgage problems limited, OSU survey finds
Americans own about 70 percent of the value in their homes, a sharp counterpoint to reports that homeowners are swamped by debt, a new survey shows. Columbus Dispatch The national survey, conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University, indicates recent problems with mortgages are isolated to a small share of […]
Analysis Criticizes Ohio Vouchers Targeting Students With Autism
Education Weekly By Christina A. Samuels The 4-year-old voucher program in Ohio that gives parents of children with autism up to $20,000 to shop around for educational services is often used in schools that do not accept students with severe needs, by agencies that do not offer a school setting, and by residents of relatively […]
Activists bare teeth over foreclosures
San Francisco Chronicle By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town. They rounded the suburban traffic circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumbling to a stop […]
Candidates get earful on housing mess
Crain’s Cleveland Business By Jay Miller Cleveland politicians and housing leaders who complained that the Democratic debate Tuesday evening didn’t focus on the most important issue to the region
NAFTA’s triumph may be Hillary Clinton’s downfall in Ohio primary
Newhouse News Service By John Farmer CLEVELAND — NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was a signature achievement for Hillary Clinton’s husband, an economic breakthrough, a political victory to celebrate. Now it may be a major liability in Hillary Clinton’s bid to beat Barack Obama in the Ohio Democratic primary Tuesday. NAFTA, passed in […]
Realities of Retraining
The machinery for aiding displaced workers grinds inefficiently in Ohio The Akron Beacon Journal Ohio’s economy is in transition. New technologies are creating new industries and businesses and changing the labor-intensive, heavy industries of the past. The altered landscape places a high premium on a work force with the training and flexible skills to fill […]
Where Cleveland went wrong
It’s too easy to blame the city’s housing collapse on Rust-belt economics. How bad government and greed made it one of the nation’s foreclosure capitals.By Les Christie CNNMoney.com CLEVELAND (CNNMoney.com) — As the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County in Ohio, Jim Rokakis spends a lot of his time trying to deal with Cleveland’s foreclosure crisis. When […]