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Posted October 04, 2002 in Press Releases
Subprime and sometimes predatory lending are responsible for an "epidemic" of housing foreclosures in the state, two Ohio public advocacy agencies said in separate reports released Oct 4. Foreclosure cases across the state increased 155 percent... read more
Posted October 04, 2002 in Press Releases
Columbus Dispatch The number of foreclosures in Ohio has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, a study being released today found. The study, by an advocacy group for people with low incomes, is one of the first comprehensive... read more
Posted September 23, 2002 in Press Releases
Crain's Cleveland Business Greg Huth acknowledges that there was a "wrapping-up" period during 2001 when the city of Cleveland still was setting in motion efforts to enforce its Fair Employment Law. read more
Posted September 18, 2002 in Press Releases
Cleveland City News As the governor s race closes up and heats up the difference between the two candidates, Tim Hagan and Bob Taft, is being brought into sharp relief. And nowhere are those differences greater... read more
Posted September 02, 2002 in Press Releases
The Toledo Blade As American workers celebrate Labor Day, a new report gives mixed grades to the progress made by working families in recent years. The good news is that the wages of female workers, although still... read more
Posted August 28, 2002 in Press Releases
Cincinnati Post By Michael Collins WASHINGTON Ohio's prison budget ballooned dramatically over the past two decades and grew five times faster than state higher education spending, a new study concludes. Meanwhile, there are more African-American men in prison... read more
Posted July 09, 2002 in Press Releases
Columbus Dispatch A nonpartisan research group yesterday questioned $1.4 million in state tax credits for a huge Kroger warehouse being built near Delaware as well as $10 million in incentives given to three new Wal-Mart facilities... read more
Posted June 04, 2002 in Press Releases
The Akron Beacon Journal By Keith McKnight, Katie Byard and David Knox A dose of prosperity, plus a marked increase in the number of homes in which both parents joined the work force, drove up the median... read more
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