Group Seeks to Hike Wages
Warren Tribune Chronicle By Raymond L. Smith Supporters of an effort to increase the state minimum wage to $6.85 an hour say they will conduct an aggressive grassroot campaign to get Ohioans to support the constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage obtained more than 363,183 valid signatures from Ohioans […]
Long-Simmering Minimum-Wage Debate Heats Up
Columbus Dispatch By Rita Price and Alan Johnson For Theresa Patterson, the minimum wage isn’t about politics ormorality. It’s about bus fare, grocery money and rent. On a recent morning, the 52-year-old grandmother boarded COTAbuses four times, piled into a temp agency van twice and cleanedbathrooms for eight hours at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. […]
Output Up, Profits Up, But Wages Lag
Critics say there should be a better distribution of the economic ‘pie.’By Jim DeBrosse Dayton Daily News If you’ve been working harder for a paycheck that stretches less and less from week to week, you have lots of company these days, economists say. Wages for every level but the top 10 percent of paid employees […]
Studies Show Salaries Aren’t Keeping Up with Inflation
Dayton Daily News By Jim DeBrosse CENTERVILLE
‘State of Working Ohio’ Finds High Productivity, Profits; Little Job, Wage Growth
The Hannah Report As national talk turns to predictions of a potential downturn in the economy, Policy Matters Ohio’s “The State of Working Ohio 2006” shows that, for Ohio workers, the period since 2001 was “the recovery thatwasn’t.” “The state has fewer jobs and lower real median wages than it had in 2000, before the […]
Census: Area Closer to Poverty
Cincinnati Enquirer Poverty increased in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky between 1999 and 2005, while median incomes rose at less than the national average in all but two local counties, new Census Bureau estimates released Tuesday show. It’s another bad economic sign for the region, which has seen its jobless rate exceed the nation’s since […]
House Ways and Means
The Hannah Report The committee heard from representatives from the business community and Zach Schiller from Policy Matters Ohio. Daniel Navin, assistant vice president for tax policy, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, told the committee that the chamber’s position is that the Legislature has spoken on the issue and the CAT is now a new part […]
Tax Debate Continues Before House Panel
Policy Group Questions Impact of Recent Changes; Tax Manager Urges Speed-up of Cuts Gongwer News Service The House Ways & Means Committee fielded varying points of view Tuesday on the subject of “tax reform.” A business advisor relayed support for accelerating the scheduled tax cuts and a Policy Matters Ohio researcher cast doubts on the […]
Trying to Make A Decent Living
While some janitors struggle to get by, others are climbing into the middle class. Behind the new battle over America’s low-wage workersBy Jeremy Caplan Time Magazine It’s 9 P.M., and Craig Jones has just finished dumping 400 trash cans’ worth of garbage into the Cincinnati Textile Building’s basement compactor. The weighty refuse he carries each […]
Tax prep agencies lure the poor into high-cost loans
A Little Off the TopThe Cleveland Free Times By Charu Gupta For as long as she can remember, Tameko Brown has been in financial straits. The 32-year-old biochemistry stockroom manager makes about $30,000 a year. She had her first child at age 18, and is now the single mother of four. This qualifies her for […]
Ford Latest Automotive Industry Employer to Announce Job Cuts in Ohio
Gongwer News Service More than 1,700 employees at Ford Motor Company’s Batavia transmission plant will be affected under a restructuring plan the automaker announced on Monday. As expected, the plan entails the elimination of 25,000-30,000 jobs – as much as a quarter of its North American work force – and several plant closings slated between […]
Ohio Slices Seniors’ Jobless Benefits
Columbus Dispatch By Catherine Candisky At 77, Donald A. Hyatt Sr. is still working because he likes to keep busy and needs the money to supplement his Social Security check. Last year, when his company announced it would lay off workers, Hyatt was stunned to learn he was not eligible for unemployment benefits. It turns […]