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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Falls to 50-Year Low

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The Buckeye Institute commented on the newly released jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, saying, “Ohio’s unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in April, the lowest recorded level in nearly 50 years. In a sign of growing confidence, Ohioans surged into the job market, with the labor force participation rate increasing from 61.5 percent to 61.8. While both rates remain below the national average, the April jobs report is extremely good news.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio Should Join the Flat-Tax Revolution

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on the tax reform policies in Ohio House Bill 33, Ohio’s biennial budget noting that “the country is in the midst of a flat-tax revolution,” with nine states already abandoning progressive, graduated income taxes and five more poised to join the revolution. Buckeye urged the Senate to take this “golden opportunity to enact overdue, comprehensive tax reforms and join a flat-tax revolution.”

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How Much More Will You Pay for Electricity Under Revived Clean Power

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The Biden Administration has revived the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, another costly green mandate on electricity production in the U.S. The Buckeye Institute’s Rea S. Hederman Jr. joined the PRI Next Round podcast to discuss Buckeye’s report showing how much more Californians and Ohioans could pay for electricity if the plan takes effect and how it would subject the rest of the country to the type of green energy mandates that Californians have been struggling to afford for years.;  

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The EPA’s California Dreamin’ would be a nightmare for the country

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In The Orange County Register, The Buckeye Institute and Pacific Research Institute expose the harm that the Biden Administration’s new Clean Power Plan would have on California, Ohio, and the rest of the country. “Whether federal- or state-imposed, misguided efforts to push President Biden’s new emissions standards and California’s green energy mandates across Ohio and other cloudy industrial states will shrink their economies, reduce their wages, squeeze their profit-margins, and raise their prices.”

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Time for Ohio to join the flat-tax revolution

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In Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute calls for Ohio to join the “flat-tax revolution,” writing, “States around the country have started a flat-tax revolution. Nine states have abandoned progressive, graduated income taxes that punish wage earners for being successful. Five more states are currently poised to join the revolution. Ohio should, too. And with a $6 billion surplus sitting in state coffers at the end of the last fiscal year, now is the time.”

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The Buckeye Institute: The Ohio Senate Can Put #StudentsFirst with Universal School Choice

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The Buckeye Institute submitted written testimony to the Ohio Senate Education Committee on the K-12 education policies included in House Bill 33, Ohio’s biennial budget, which would expand important school choice options to more Ohio families. Buckeye called on the Ohio Senate to “make all students eligible for Ohio’s most successful school choice program” and highlighted its analysis that found “many working-class families would still be ineligible” for EdChoice under the budget passed by the Ohio House.

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The Buckeye Institute: Remaking Ohio’s Higher Education System to Meet 21st Century Needs

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The Buckeye Institute submitted written testimony to the Ohio House Higher Education Committee on some of the policies in Ohio House Bill 151 and how to reshape Ohio’s higher education system to meet the needs of the 21st century. Buckeye urged lawmakers to “give vouchers directly to students rather than simply subsidizing colleges,” noting this would harness the “transformative strength of a free market that empowers students and incentivizes universities to compete for students and state dollars.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio Needs a Responsive Education Bureaucracy to Keep Pace with 21st Century Opportunities

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Economic and Workforce Development Committee on the policies in Ohio Senate Bill 1, which reform the State Board of Education and Ohio Department of Education to put students first and better prepare graduates to “earn a living, afford a house, [and] support a family.” Buckeye warned that “continued underperformance in K-12 education will mean a weaker workforce” and urged lawmakers to adopt policies that will improve K-12 education.

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“Let’s keep it simple. Ohio deserves a low, flat rate income tax”

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In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute and Americans for Prosperity-Ohio outline the benefits and effectiveness of a flat tax, urging the Ohio General Assembly to “dramatically improve Ohio’s income tax policy by creating a single flat tax rate of 2.75 percent on taxable income over $26,050.” “[I]f Ohio lawmakers will boldly reform an outmoded tax code that discourages hard work and punishes investment, economic growth and prosperity for Ohio will follow.”

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