Testimony to the House Unemployment Compensation Debt Study Committee
Ohio’s unemployment compensation solvency problem not the economy, but administrative underfunding; fixing that is crucial because Ohio dropped the ball on funding claims for the displaced workers in greatest need.
Labor Day report issues urgent call for job creation
For immediate release Contact: Amy Hanauer, 216.361.9801 Download press release (1pg) Full report Labor market participation was at a 34-year low in 2013, Ohio productivity grew by 66.9 percent between 1979 and 2013, and yet median hourly wages actually fell by 1.1 percent when adjusted for inflation. The State of Working Ohio 2014 issues an […]
Out-of-step
Fore immediate release Contact: Hannah Halbert, 614.221.4505 Download press release (1pg) Full report More needed to make the Ohio EITC a credit that counts The majority of Ohio’s poorest workers will see no benefit from the recent expansion of the Ohio Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The Ohio General Assembly doubled the value of […]
New Cuts to Food Aid in Ohio Should Not Go Forward
Policy Matters Ohio, others, call on the Kasich administration to reverse course on a decision that has cost thousands of Ohioans federally funded food aid as they struggle with unemployment and underemployment in the slow recovery.
The Great Ohio Tax Shift
For immediate release Contact: Zach Schiller, 216.361.9801 Download press release Full report New report finds that changes since 2005 have widened inequality Major changes in Ohio’s tax system over the past nine years have slashed average annual tax bills for the state’s most affluent 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $20,000, while the bottom […]
Study finds low wages will challenge budget initiatives on public assistance
For immediate release Contact: Wendy Patton: 614.221.4505 Download press release (1pg) Full report The Mid-Biennium Review created five initiatives to help public assistance recipients get jobs and reduce reliance on public assistance, detailed in a new report by Policy Matters Ohio. “The context of these initiatives is a low-wage economy that leaves many working families […]
Big tax cuts for the wealthy, few new jobs
Big tax breaks to the wealthy in MBR, with little job growth; unemployment rate falls as workers leave the labor force; the Supreme Court gives predatory payday lenders a pass on triple digit interest rates; but severance taxes to cover public costs of fracking are “puny;” and Director Amy Hanauer to rally the City Club […]
Dayton Ohio, Denver, ending Regional Job Piracy
This report by Good Jobs First finds that smart economic development measures in Dayton and Denver curb regional job piracy.
New Ohio Tax Cuts Go Mostly to Wealthiest
For immediate release Contact: Zach Schiller, 216.361.9801 Download press release (2pp) Full report Report also details tax breaks in the Mid-Biennium Review Most of the more than $400 million in tax cuts this fiscal year in the budget bill recently approved by the Ohio General Assembly will go to affluent Ohioans, according to a report […]
Study finds severance tax bill passed by the House too small to help communities
For immediate release Contact Wendy Patton, 614.221.4505 Download press release Full report House Bill 375, passed by the House in May, has a rate so low and a base so narrowed by deductions that revenues would not cover the needs of the state and impacted communities. That is the key conclusion of a report on […]
Federal EITC boosts Cleveland’s Promise neighborhood
For immediate release Contact Hannah Halbert, 614.221.4505 Download press release Full report Report makes proposals to fix Ohio’s earned income credit The Central Promise neighborhood is $5.7 million more prosperous thanks to the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, which helped an estimated 1,900 low-wage working families and individuals in the community make ends meet, […]
Tax cuts would divert funds, flow mostly to the affluent
For immediate release Contact: Zach Schiller, 216.361.9801 Download press release (2pp) Full report Half of this year’s savings would go to the top 5 percent, analysis finds Half of the tax cuts the Ohio Senate has proposed for the current tax year will go to the top 5 percent of Ohio earners, according to a […]