Laid-off seniors to get help soon
House passes bill to end cuts to unemploymentBy Catherine Candisky The Columbus Dispatch It’s an amazing turn of events for a proposal that has lingered in the legislature for more than a year and a half. The House unanimously approved a bill yesterday to make senior citizens eligible for full unemployment benefits when they lose […]
Renewable Interest
The governor and others talk a good game about alternative energy. Then they embrace Senate legislation that should be much stronger Columbus Dispatch Ted Strickland and other Democrats campaigned across the state last year touting the economic promise of renewable and advanced energy sources. An Ohio bleeding manufacturing jobs? Alternative energy sources would lead to […]
Legislation sluggish for helping at-risk homeowners
National legislation to help those facing foreclosure yet to be pushed through; state works on own measures.By Jessica Wehrman Dayton Daily News WASHINGTON
Moms, it’s too early to cheer
The Akron Beacon Journal By Dennis J. Willard COLUMBUS: Pregnant women working for small companies shouldn’t start planning to take a 12-week leave of absence yet. Yes, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission flexed its muscle last week and used a 1977 law against sexual discrimination to order companies to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave […]
Paid Sick Days Help Employers
The Cleveland Plain Dealer By Jeff Coryell House Speaker Jon Husted (R-Kettering) expressed opposition this week to the Ohio Healthy Families Act, proposed by a coalition called Ohioans for Healthy Families. (The group is primarily composed of unions but also includes the AARP, medical groups, and many Democratic elected officials and candidates.) The act would […]
Policy Matters Calls for ‘Entrepreneurial’ Energy, Union Jobs
The Hannah Report With Democrats and Republicans offering competing energy platforms this week and Ohio legislators seeing representation at a related policy summit in Nashville, Policy Matters Ohio announced the release of a national report recognizing energy initiatives in Ohio and other states. The think tank is the Ohio partner of Apollo Alliance, a proponent […]
States Aim to Stem Tide of Home Foreclosures
With Funds for Refinancing By Thaddeus Herrick Wall Street Journal Hoping to slow the quickening pace of home foreclosures, about a half-dozen states are setting up funds to help homeowners with high-risk subprime mortgages refinance to more-affordable loans. The states — which include Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania — are expected […]
Ohio still spinning in foreclosure fury
Despite slight improvement, state is No. 6 in delinquent loans, report showsBy Denise Trowbridge Columbus Dispatch Troubles caused by subprime mortgage loans are still a sore spot in Ohio. The state had 19.9 percent of its subprime adjustable-rate loans, the type typically made to borrowers with poor or no credit, go 90 days past due […]
State budget shortfall looms
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Report Shows Ohio Foreclosures Rising
State’s foreclosure crisis ‘worsened substantially in 2006,’ report’s author says.By Ken McCall and William Hershey Western Star Foreclosure filings jumped by almost a quarter in Ohio last year, the largest increase in recent history, a new report has found. The number of filings in 2006
Report Finds Spike In Home Foreclosure Filings
Gongwer News Service Home foreclosure filings in Ohio continued to rise in 2006 with nearly 80,000 new filings, a 23.6% increase over the previous year, according to a Policy Matters Ohio report released Monday. Last year’s foreclosure spike is the largest absolute gain in the state’s recent history and follows three years of more modest […]
Bought with easy credit, homes lost in foreclosure
Chicago Tribune By Tim Jones CLEVELAND — This is the city where John D. Rockefeller made his fortune, where fullback Jim Brown bowled over hapless defenders and where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bestows cultural immortality on fabled musicians. Today Cleveland, with a rapidly growing stable of vacant and boarded-up homes, is known […]