Posted on 09/07/17 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
By Hannah Halbert and Rachel Hirsch In its 2018-19 budget, the Ohio legislature took an important step toward supporting quality skill-based training programs for Ohioans eligible for food assistance (SNAP). The new law requires that the Director of Job and Family Services, in collaboration with the Chancellor of Higher Education, convene a planning committee to expand a skills-based SNAP Employment & Training (E&T) program. Representatives of community colleges, local workforce development boards, and nonprofit organizations that provide training to low-income people must all be included. The committee will identify potential training partners and funding sources that could be used to leverage... read more
Posted on 06/13/17 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Workers’ comp bill puts politics before worker safety Nearly 105,000 Ohio workers were hurt at work in 2015, and more than 200 lost their lives. Families depend on the workers’ compensation system to make sure that... read more
Posted on 03/28/17 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Acosta has a history of acting along partisan lines [image:1] After the failed nomination of Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor, the Trump administration put forward Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law... read more
Posted on 11/17/16 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Basic Needs + Unemployment Insurance
Policy Matters Ohio joins workers in testimony to the Joint Committee on Unemployment Compensation Reform. I’m a coal miner’s daughter. In the boom years, we were lucky enough to take a summer vacation. We’d drive to... read more
Posted on 03/29/16 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Fair share is fair. That was the finding of an equally divided U.S. Supreme Court, which today issued a one-sentence decision that upheld nearly 40 years of legal precedent and the right of public sector workers... read more
Posted on 09/16/15 by Hannah Halbert (she/her) in Work & Wages
Full-time employment has rebounded to pre-recession levels, but new census data shows wages are so low that 1.4 million more workers are living in poverty compared to 2007. The data released today by the U.S. Census... read more
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