Research by Zach Schiller Hehim

Work & Wages

Indefensible tax breaks for data centers will cost Ohio

January 07, 2025

Health & Health Equity

Comment to the Ohio EPA on standards for PFAS

September 18, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Public comment on proposed TIF for Cleveland’s riverfront

August 09, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Create a property tax circuit breaker

May 22, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Reservations about Cleveland's downtown TIF

March 19, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Testimony: Ohio needs a property tax circuit breaker

January 11, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Ohio needs a property tax circuit breaker

January 10, 2024

Revenue & Budget — Tax Policy

Concerns about Tax Increment Financing for Cleveland’s Bedrock development project

November 14, 2023

Work & Wages — Collective Bargaining

Thinking big with the UAW

August 15, 2023

Basic Needs + Unemployment Insurance — Unemployment Insurance

Testimony on Senate Bill 116 before the Senate Insurance Committee

June 07, 2023

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Research by Zach Schiller Hehim

Indefensible tax breaks for data centers will cost Ohio

Comment to the Ohio EPA on standards for PFAS

Public comment on proposed TIF for Cleveland’s riverfront

Create a property tax circuit breaker

Reservations about Cleveland's downtown TIF

Testimony: Ohio needs a property tax circuit breaker

Ohio needs a property tax circuit breaker

Concerns about Tax Increment Financing for Cleveland’s Bedrock development project

Thinking big with the UAW

Testimony on Senate Bill 116 before the Senate Insurance Committee

Testimony on House Bill 116 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Testimony on Senate Bill 302 before the House Technology and Innovation Committee

Testimony before the Unemployment Compensation Modernization & Improvement Council, Dec. 1, 2022

Testimony on amendments to Senate Bill 302 before the Senate Insurance Committee

Testimony on House Bill 234 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Testimony on Senate Bill 302 before the Senate Insurance Committee

Policy Matters letter to Cleveland Mayor Bibb and Council President Griffin

Making the most of Intel for everyone

Testimony on Senate Bill 228 before the Senate Insurance Committee

Testimony on Senate Bill 246 before the Senate Ways & Means Committee

Testimony before the Unemployment Compensation Modernization and Improvement Council on its draft report

Ohio tax cuts would go mostly to the very affluent

More giveaways, less accountability

Senate tax cuts would go mostly to the affluent

Testimony on House Bill 110 before the Senate Local Government and Elections Committee

House Budget chooses tax cuts over more support for key public programs

Testimony before the Unemployment Compensation Modernization & Improvement Council

Testimony on Senate Bill 9 before the Senate Committee on Government Oversight and Reform

Testimony on Senate Bill 18 before the Senate Ways & Means Committee

Ohio needs a corporate profits tax

­­Tidings of joy for 300,000 Ohioans?

Testimony on House Bill 749 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Ohio legislators need to plug a hole in the tax system

Testimony on SB 282 before the Senate Insurance and Financial Institutions Committee

Trump’s “lost wages assistance” and Ohio

New testimony on HB 614 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Testimony on SJR 4 before the Senate Finance Committee

Testimony on HB 614 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Avoid layoffs with Shared Work Ohio

Bolster Ohio's unemployment compensation system

Big Ohio CEOs 200, workers 1

Testimony on HB 150 before the House Financial Institutions Committee

Ohio tax shift away from wealthy: The pattern repeats

Tax breaks in the state budget for 2020-21

Closing the LLC Loophole

Testimony on SB 39 before the Senate Finance Committee

The good and the bad in the House tax plan

Testimony on HB 166 before the Senate Committee on General Government and Agency Review

Loopholes upon loopholes

Testimony on SB 1 before the Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee

State tax structure contributes to racial inequity

Testimony on HB 469 before the Senate Ways & Means Committee

Loopholes in a loophole

Tax abatements cost Ohio schools at least $125 million

CEO pay vs. worker pay: Often, a 200-to-1 ratio

Testimony on SB 221 before the House Government Accountability & Oversight Committee

Overhaul: A plan to rebalance Ohio's income tax

Testimony on SB 293 before the Senate Transportation, Commerce & Workforce Committee

Testimony to Tax Expenditure Review Committee

U.S. tax law is a boon to the affluent

Testimony on HB 292 before the Senate Ways & Means Committee

Local tax abatement in Ohio: A flash of transparency

Testimony on HB 382 and HJR 4 before the House Government Accountability and Oversight Committee

Testimony on HB 334 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Testimony on HB 292 before the House Ways & Means Committee

Testimony on SB 186 before the Senate Ways & Means Committee

Tax changes in the Ohio budget

Ohio job growth picks up in June

Budget Bite: Tax breaks in the Senate bill

Budget Bite: Tax breaks in the House bill

Testimony on HB 49 before the Senate Finance Committee

The $1 billion tax break burning a hole in Ohio’s budget

Tax breaks should be reined in

Protecting Unemployment Compensation in Ohio

The link between education and self-sufficiency

Policy Matters testimony before House Finance Committee

Testimony to House Finance Committee

Testimony to the House Ways & Means Committee on House Bill 49

Kasich plan to take over business-profits tax collection raises concerns

Tidings of joy for 300,000 Ohioans?