Report: Workers Make Mixed Gains: Women’s Wages Up, Black Men’s Lag
The Toledo Blade As American workers celebrate Labor Day, a new report gives mixed grades to the progress made by working families in recent years. The good news is that the wages of female workers, although still lagging behind those of men, are increasing steadily. Also positive are the gains made by female and minority […]
Ohians See Drop in Income Since ’70s: Inflation, Job Exodus Erode Average Wage
Cincinnati Enquirer By Ken Alltucker Here’s a sobering Labor Day revelation: Two decades ago, Ohioans worked less and were paid more for their efforts. That’s the conclusion of a new report from an Ohio think tank that analyzed two decades of income data culled from U.S. Census Bureau surveys. The study, to be released today […]
Prison Spending Outpaces Higher Ed
Cincinnati Post By Michael Collins WASHINGTON Ohio’s prison budget ballooned dramatically over the past two decades and grew five times faster than state higher education spending, a new study concludes. Meanwhile, there are more African-American men in prison in Ohio than are enrolled in the state’s colleges and universities, the report says. “This report underlines […]
Ohio’s Spending Priorities Criticized
Prison funds outpace college aid, study saysBy Joe Mahr The Toledo Blade Ohio prisons added about 17,000 African-American men over two decades, but its four-year colleges added fewer than 500 – a ratio that a think tank said is second worst in the nation. The data come from a national report released today by a […]
Critics: State Misuses Tax Deals
Columbus Dispatch A nonpartisan research group yesterday questioned $1.4 million in state tax credits for a huge Kroger warehouse being built near Delaware as well as $10 million in incentives given to three new Wal-Mart facilities across the state.
Ohio Incomes Jump; 2 Parents Working on More Families
The Akron Beacon Journal By Keith McKnight, Katie Byard and David Knox A dose of prosperity, plus a marked increase in the number of homes in which both parents joined the work force, drove up the median family income for Ohioans in the past decade to about 10 percent beyond the inflation rate. Data released […]
It’s Only Money
Crain’s Cleveland Business Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades in the White House were the invention of a vast rightwing conspiracy, and the state of Ohio s mounting outlays to private contractors to perform work for the government are the politically biased concoction of a public policy research group controlled by Democrats. Right. It was almost laughable […]
Gap Widens Between Rich, Poor
Investment income, manufacturing decline cause divide among Ohioansby Christopher Montgomery Dayton Daily News DAYTON | The growth rate of Ohio’s income gap
Report Takes State to Task on Consultant Spending
Bill goes from $200M to $609M in 10 years by Laura A. Bischoff Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS | State government spending onconsultants has skyrocketed during the past 10years with inadequate oversight to make sureOhio is getting what it s paying for, according toa Cleveland think-tank report. The purchase of “personal services,” such asmanagement advice and […]
National Report Card Gives Ohio an F in Unemployment Insurance
The Hannah Report A state-by-state unemployment insurance report card released Tuesday gives Ohio’s system a failing grade. Failing the Unemployed, produced nationally by the Economic Policy Institute, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the National Employment Law Project, takes a detailed look at unemployment insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, evaluating how […]
High Court High Noon
Education Weekly by Mark Walsh When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the topic of Cleveland’sschool vouchers next week in a case destined for landmarkstatus, the central issue will be the constitutionality of includingreligious schools in a state program that gives tuition aid tochildren from low-income families. The wisdom or efficacy of such government benefits […]
Cleveland Case Poses New Test for Vouchers
New York Times by Jacques Steinberg CLEVELAND