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The new rule means that if Ohio doesn’t expand Medicaid, in 2014 Ohio’s safety net hospitals could lose more than $23 million in federal aid for the treatment of patients without insurance. (read more)
Neither a personal income tax cut nor a business income tax exemption, both under consideration in the budget debate, will help Ohio’s economy. They are bad for low- and moderate-income Ohioans, and slash revenue Ohio needs to support our economic success and improve our quality... (read more)
Ohio added just 7,600 jobs in April, nowhere near the growth needed to fix Ohio’s slow-growth economy. The state needs 235,000 jobs just to make up for losses in the last recession. If the current job growth rate becomes Ohio’s new normal, the state is in deep trouble. (read... (read more)
Ohio legislators have taken Medicaid expansion out of the budget, but keep talking about it. That’s good, because expanding Medicaid would be good for Ohio and good for Ohioans. In this issue brief, we look at studies of Medicaid quality. (read more)
Ohio foreclosures are at crisis levels, with more than 70,000 new foreclosures filed in 2012. This map gives county-by-county foreclosure data, including the number of new filings in 2012, filings per 1,000 residents, and comparisons to 1995 and 2011. For the seventh year in a row... (read more)
Join us at 10 a.m EST on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Register here. Tom Feltner of the Consumer Federation of America and David Rothstein of Policy Matters Ohio will co-facilitate the webinar Keys as Collateral: Auto-tile Lending Industry and its impact in Ohio. The webinar will cover... (read more)
Ohio policymakers should not simply extend the enterprise zone program. If it is to be continued, it needs a serious overhaul. (read more)
Legislators should accept federal dollars to pay for comprehensive health care coverage for Ohio’s low-income workers. Approving a budget that expands Medicaid to 153,000 low-income working women, and others, will help mothers and babies get healthier in Ohio. As a result, families,... (read more)
Fully 70 percent of districts responding to the survey said they had made cuts to balance the budget for 2012-13, up from about two-thirds that reported cuts for the previous school year. More than 90 percent of respondents said they anticipated having to make cuts next year unless... (read more)
Ohio foreclosures remain at crisis levels, with 70,469 new filings in 2012. While this is a slight decrease from 2011, the number of filings remained more than four times higher than it was in the mid-1990s. (read more)
