Recent Presentation

Tuesday December 16th, 2008, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
The Gallery at Trinity Cathedral,
2021 E. 22nd St. (corner of Euclid and 22nd)
Free Parking – Enter off Prospect

Panelists & Speakers include:

• Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress,
• Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, Policy Matters Ohio,
• Stuart Acuff, Organizing Director, National AFL-CIO,
• Reverend Marvin McMickle, Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church
• John Ryan, State Director, office of Senator Sherrod Brown

Join the debate on creating an economy that works better for all.

In Ohio, the average family would need to earn about 1.3 times the state’s pre-K income eligibility levels to afford a typical early care and education program on their own, according to a new study from the national advocacy organization Pre-K Now, released in Ohio by Policy Matters Ohio. Even families earning as much as $58,000 in Ohio would struggle to pay for early education on their own, according to the Pre-K Now study.

The Pre-K Pinch: Early Education and the Middle Class outlines the difficulties facing families who earn too much to qualify for state pre-k programs but too little to pay for quality care on their own, and highlights the well-documented benefits – to these cash-strapped families, their children, and society as a whole – of providing high-quality, voluntary pre-k to all three- and four-year-olds.

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New estate tax statistics from the IRS show that the percentage of deaths resulting in federal estate tax is below 1 percent nationally and continues to fall under tax cuts approved in 2001. This December 2008 report by Citizens for Tax Justice presents the latest numbers. In Ohio, just 425 estates or 0.4 percent of the total owed federal estate tax in 2007. The report explains why the threshold for the tax needs to be restored, not set permanently at a lower level than it was prior to the cuts.

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