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 […]
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 […]