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The Buckeye Institute Applauds Governor DeWine’s Decisions to Get More Workers Back into the Job Market

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Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, issued a statement on Governor Mike DeWine’s announcement that Ohio will withdraw from the federal pandemic unemployment benefits program, which The Buckeye Institute recommended in Policy Solutions for the Pandemic: Declining Extra Unemployment Benefits Will Help Get Ohio Back to Work.

The Buckeye Institute: Declining Extra Unemployment Benefits Will Help Get Ohio Back to Work

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In a new policy memo, Policy Solutions for the Pandemic: Declining Extra Unemployment Benefits Will Help Get Ohio Back to Work, The Buckeye Institute calls on Ohio to decline Washington’s extra unemployment benefit and work instead to reduce labor shortages and get Ohioans back to work. “With job openings at an all-time high, Ohio policymakers should avoid a weakened recovery and reject Washington’s expanded unemployment benefits.”

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Eviction Moratorium Dubious Impact

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In a new piece, The Buckeye Institute looks at the impact of eviction moratoriums, writing, “[A] better policy would encourage voluntary forbearance and reductions rather than impose them by government fiat. Federal, state, and local governments should lift the eviction moratoriums and give emergency federal assistance a chance to help. If smaller landlords lose their rental properties, the long-term side-effects of well-intended fiat policies may prove worse than the disease.”

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“Put the kids first, Ohio: It’s time for ESAs”

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In a piece for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Gadfly, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, urges the Ohio General Assembly to “take a student-first approach” to K-12 funding to “significantly improve education outcomes for students in every corner of the state,” writing that through education savings accounts “Ohio could help students at every income level, of every race, and in every neighborhood of the state pay for learning that is right for them.”

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Washington Has No Authority to Dictate State Taxes

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Ohio and 20 others are suing to challenge an unconstitutional poison pill in the COVID relief law. In The Wall Street Journal, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, writes, “Congressional Democrats last month quietly attempted one of the most sweeping takeovers of state policy making in American history. The ill-conceived American Rescue Plan Act offered states nearly $200 billion in emergency pandemic-relief funding. As is often the case with ‘free’ money, there was a catch.”

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Buckeye Institute-Championed Universal Occupational Licensing Recognition Will Make Ohio More Prosperous

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee on the policies in House Bill 203, which would embrace universal occupational license recognition for people moving to Ohio. In its testimony, Buckeye urged lawmakers to follow the lead of Arizona, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Utah and adopt universal occupational license recognition, saying, “House Bill 203’s licensing recognition…will help Ohio by helping would-be Ohio workers pursue careers and professions here.”;

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The Buckeye Institute: Education Savings Accounts Give Ohio’s Children the Best Chance to Succeed

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The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee on the education budget included in House Bill 110, Ohio’s biennial operating budget. In its testimony, Buckeye outlined how Ohio can “take a student-first approach to funding K-12 education” using education savings accounts, which “provide a bipartisan funding solution” and “help parents afford critical education resources and the flexibility needed for students to succeed.”

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The Buckeye Institute Files Third Legal Brief to Protect Taxpayers Against Biden’s Tax Mandate

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The Buckeye Institute filed its third amicus brief calling on the courts to protect taxpayers from the federal tax mandate included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The most recent ARPA-related brief was filed in West Virginia v. Yellen with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Western Division. In addition to West Virginia and Alabama, other plaintiffs in the case are the states of Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.

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Buckeye Institute-Championed House Bill 2 is Good for Ohioans and Good for Ohio’s Economy

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Greg R. Lawson, research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, issued a statement after the Ohio Senate passed House Bill 2, which will expand access to broadband to unserved areas of Ohio, saying, “It has become increasingly clear that access to high-speed broadband is an essential part of daily life in America, and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to expand service as millions of Ohioans began to attend school, work, shop, and visit their doctors from home. House Bill 2 is an important step towards increasing access to this critical service.”

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The Buckeye Institute Appeals Columbus Municipal Income Tax Case

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Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, issued a statement after Buckeye filed its notice of appeal with Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals in Buckeye v. Kilgore—a case challenging the City of Columbus’s application of local income tax to nonresidents who did not work in Columbus for extended periods of time during the pandemic—saying, “The Ohio Supreme Court has been perfectly clear in binding decisions stating that cities lack the authority to tax residents who neither work nor live there.”

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