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Last week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) began informing some Ohioans that they could lose access to food assistance as soon as May 31st. Seniors will be disproportionately affected: In Cuyahoga County, 675 of the 1,350 people who will lose SNAP benefits are over 55. (Only Cuyahoga Coun...
Tomorrow, when the City Club of Cleveland hosts Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ohioans concerned about rural health care deserve to hear the truth about what last year’s federal budget bill (H.R. 1) will cost...
34.2%: Share of the American workforce who were members of a union back in 1945. That’s more than 1 in 3, and it has never been that high again. In 2024, it was fewer than 1 in 10. Last year it ticked up to an even 10%. And although union representation in Ohio remains higher than the national average, the gap got smaller last year. That is partly because sta...
Today, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), in partnership with the Department of Labor, released job and unemployment indicators for March. Ohio employers added 12,500 jobs that month, more than making up for February’s losses (-4,700). State and national unemployment rates both ticked down 0.1 percentage points in February, to 4.1% in Ohio and 4.3% nation...
While union membership nationally ticked up in 2025, Ohio moved in the opposite direction. A new analysis from Policy Matters Ohio shows that union representation in Ohio fell by hal...