Saturday Stats
Posted June 04, 2022 in eNews
6/7: That’s June 7th — this Tuesday!! — the day we take to the Statehouse to launch the All In For Ohio Agenda with our friends at the Ohio Organizing Collaborative! If you’re sick of... read more
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Saturday Stats
Posted May 21, 2022 in eNews
[image:1] 213,000: Researcher Michael Shields found that Ohio employers steal from some 213,000 working Ohioans each year by paying them less than the minimum wage — just one of many types of wage theft. A person... read more
Saturday Stats
Posted May 07, 2022 in eNews
[image:1] 4 in 10: Last week we released a report written by Michael Shields which found that four of Ohio’s 10 most common jobs pay a typical worker such low wages that they wouldn’t be able... read more
Saturday Stats
Posted April 23, 2022 in eNews
[image:1] 82.9%: Ohio has restored 82.9% of jobs lost to COVID-19, but still needs 146,100 jobs to recover our pre-COVID number from February 2020. In this month’s JobWatch, researcher Michael Shields wrote that Ohio is following... read more
Saturday Stats
Posted April 02, 2022 in eNews
Numeric news from Policy Matters 174,000: Federal aid has helped Ohioans get back on their feet after the COVID recession, but Michael Shields found that the state still has 174,000 fewer jobs than we did in... read more
Saturday Stats
Posted March 19, 2022 in eNews
Numeric news from Policy Matters $2 billion: The DeWine administration has promised nearly $2 billion in public funds to back Intel Corporation’s major investment in new semiconductor production facilities here in Ohio. State legislators will have... read more
Saturday Stats: Numeric news from Policy Matters
Posted March 05, 2022 in eNews
$74,785, $79,821, and $80,911: Those are the annual costs of living for a family of four in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus metro areas respectively, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator. All... read more
Saturday Stats
Posted February 19, 2022 in eNews
Numeric news from Policy Matters Ohio $51,000: The richest 1% of Ohioans have on average $51,000 more per year than they did 17 years ago, according to a new report by State Policy Fellow, Guillermo Bervejillo.... read more