Taft Wants Business to Pay More
Governor is seeking to cut back on corporate money maneuvers The Toledo Blade COLUMBUS On Jan. 13, a few hours after he was sworn in to a second term as governor, Republican Bob Taft was asked why there were not any bold proposals in his inaugural address. Full Article
Punishment, Accountability Outside A Prison
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Study: Poorer Ohioans’ Tax Burden Greater
Wealthy pay smaller portion of income to state, local taxes Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | State and local taxes gobble up a greater share of the incomes of low- and middle income Ohioans than they do of the state’s richest residents, according to a study released Tuesday. Full Article
Tax Burden Shifting From Rich, Study Finds
Disparity growing in Ohio, U.S., as states face budget shortfalls Columbus Dispatch Ohio’s state and local tax burden hits low- and middle-income residents harder than wealthy Ohioans, a study released yesterday shows. Full Article
Report Card: Tri-State Lags In Status of Women
American City Business Journal When it comes to the status of their female citizens, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana recently brought home a report card that should have landed the region in the woodshed. The report card, “Status of Women in the States,” was released Nov. 19 by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, […]
Ohio Gets Low Grades On ‘Status of Women’ National Report Card
The Hannah Report Ohio received a C, two C minuses, a D minus, and an F on a report card on the “Status of Women in the States,” issued by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). “I’d be livid if my children brought home these grades,” said Amy Hanauer, executive director of Policy Matters Ohio, which released the […]
Ohioans face hard facts
The Akron Beacon Journal Many angry state hasn’t done more for economyBy Doug Oplinger Stephen Dyer and Dennis J. Willard Ohio overtaken by other statesEarl and Thelma McKinney came from Kentucky after World War II as part of the exodus from mining towns to Ohio’s New Frontier. Earl, now 70, is retired from the Ford […]
State Aid Difficult To Get
Ohio rules for unemployment rank among most restrictive in nationBy Doug Oplinger, Stephen Dyer and Dennis J. Willard The Akron Beacon Journal Ohio is hard on its unemployed and low-income families. Women, most often, are the victims. Teresa Day of Rootstown is an example. She has two young children and is fighting to keep her […]
Home foreclosures double since ’94
Study links part of trend to predatory lending increaseBy Laura A. Bischoff Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | The number of home foreclosure filings more than doubled statewide between 1994 and 2001, a trend that researchers blame partly on predatory lending, according to two studies released Friday. “We don’t think it’s a (one) year problem, but […]
Ohio Groups Attack Subprime, Predatory Lending
Subprime and sometimes predatory lending are responsible for an “epidemic” of housing foreclosures in the state, two Ohio public advocacy agencies said in separate reports released Oct 4. Foreclosure cases across the state increased 155 percent to 43,419 between 1994 and 2001, said Columbus-based Policy Matters Ohio. About 24,597 families in Ohio lost their houses […]
More Ohioans Losing Homes
Columbus Dispatch The number of foreclosures in Ohio has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, a study being released today found. The study, by an advocacy group for people with low incomes, is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compile the number of foreclosures statewide. The study found that 43,419 properties were foreclosed last year […]
City Ready to Enforce Its Living Wage Law
Crain’s Cleveland Business Greg Huth acknowledges that there was a “wrapping-up” period during 2001 when the city of Cleveland still was setting in motion efforts to enforce its Fair Employment Law.