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Saturday Stats - Policy Matters Ohio (opens the original)
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124,876: Number of additional childcare slots Ohio could make available if providers had enough staff to operate at full capacity. Three-quarters of Ohio’s childcare centers are below full enrollment, not because they lack space, but because they cannot recruit and retain enough workers. (Our new factsheets show the share of under-capacity childcare centers in every legislative district.) Since 2019, Ohio’s childcare workforce has shrunk by nearly 40%, while the typical childcare worker is paid
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For the 26th Labor Day in a row, Policy Matters is releasing our State of Working Ohio report (fondly known as SOWO around the office). This year’s theme is The Costs of Inaction — as in, the consequences of legislators’ ongoing failure to act in the best interests of working people. Of course, policymakers have options for correcting course. That’s why each chapter of SOWO 2026 also includes policy recommendations for any legislators willing to step up — and for which the rest of us can advocat
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$7,395: Maximum value of a federal Pell Grant for the 2026-27 school year. That money can be used to pay for college tuition and related costs, and is awarded depending on students’ financial need. It’s an important tool for making college more affordable, though it’s not enough. Ohio’s own need-based aid — the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) — can help, but a major design flaw makes it far less effective than it could be. In our recent brief, we show how OCOG is set up to fail many studen
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84.5%: Share of Ohio jobs that are in occupations for which the 2025 median wage was less than the cost of living for a family of three. (The median wage is in the middle: Half the workers in those occupations are paid more; half are paid less.) As noted in our annual report on wage data, four of the 10 most common jobs in the state pay so little at the median that a full-time worker with a family of three would qualify for food assistance. Ohio lawmakers have spent two decades cutting taxes wit
State legislators can make Ohio good for businesses and working people - Policy Matters Ohio (opens the original)
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CNBC today identified Ohio as “America’s Top State for Business in 2026.” Policy Matters Executive Director Hannah Halbert issued the following statement: “Ohio’s #1 ranking may be good news for businesses, but it doesn’t reflect the reality that many of the most common jobs in the state pay too little for even a single person to get by — and far too little to raise a family. “Ohioans still struggle with unaffordable childcare, gaps in health coverage, and wages that have not kept pace with infl
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