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Posted January 01, 2004 in Press Releases
by Zach Schiller, in Urban Dialect One woman worked at a Southeastern Ohio restaurant for most of last year, averaging $174.68 a week. Another sold magazines over the phone in Cincinnati, working 20 to 25 hours... read more
Posted December 26, 2003 in Press Releases
The end of the recession two years ago did nothing to halt the loss of jobs in Ohio. The state had 131,000 fewer jobs last month than it did two years earlier when economists say the... read more
Posted December 12, 2003 in Press Releases
Columbus Dispatch Ohio's Third Frontier Action Fund, the oldest part of the Taft administration's high-tech economic development program, has created few jobs despite handing out $55 million in the past five years, according to a study to... read more
Posted December 12, 2003 in Press Releases
Cincinnati Enquirer A report issued today by a Cleveland research group says Ohio's 5-year-old Third Frontier Action Fund, part of the state's flagship economic development program, has generated few jobs and little commercial activity. Full Article read more
Posted December 12, 2003 in Press Releases
Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS -- A grant component of Gov. Bob Taft's Third Frontier Project has modest economic benefits while the oversight of its administration is inadequate, according to a report being released today. Full Article read more
Posted December 12, 2003 in Press Releases
The State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Action Fund, the oldest part of Gov. Bob Taft’s hightech economic development program, has created only a modest number of commercial jobs and is operated without sufficient accountability to... read more
Posted November 10, 2003 in Op-Eds
Wealthy benefit most from enterprise zones, but the program was supposed to create jobs in economically depressed urban areas. The Ohio Enterprise Zone Program, created in 1981 to spur economic development and job creation in... read more
Posted November 02, 2003 in Press Releases
Ohio's enterprise zone program is more likely to bring jobs and investment to wealthy areas than the poor neighborhoods the program is supposed to help, according to a report by Policy Matters Ohio, a Cleveland... read more
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