State and Local Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Harder Than the Wealthy
Low- and middle-income Ohio families pay a greater share of their incomes in state and local taxes than the state’s most affluent do, according to a study released today. The top 1 percent of non-elderly Ohio families by income, who earn at least $261,000 a year, pay 9.7 percent of their income in state and […]
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 […]
Institute Finds Leak in Tax Collection
Study points out corporate hole Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | Ohio needs to put a clamp on the ability of businesses to avoid the corporate franchise tax, the tax levied on a company’s net income or its net worth, particularly in light of a looming state budget crisis. Full Article
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.
Hagan to Vote “Yes” on Issue 1
Cleveland City News As the governor s race closes up and heats up the difference between the two candidates, Tim Hagan and Bob Taft, is being brought into sharp relief. And nowhere are those differences greater than over the contentious Issue 1, the bill that would mandate treatment for first and second-time drug offenders. Gov. […]
All that Cash for College — Headed for Ohio's Prisons
CLEVELAND – The writer is executive director of Policy Matters Ohio, a policy research institute in Cleveland, funded primarily by the George Gund Foundation. Observers across the political spectrum worry about Ohio’s shameful levels of higher education. We rank 39th among the states in the percentage of adults who can claim a bachelor’s degree. This […]