Analysts in Ohio are keeping a watchful eye on certain decisions made on the federal level to address the problem of inflation. Ohio Public Media’s Andy Chow talked to Rea Hederman, with The Buckeye Institute, and Guillermo Bervejillo with Policy Matters Ohio about the impact of inflation in Ohio.
Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, joined the Pacific Research Institute’s Next Round podcast to discuss Buckeye’s work in challenging Ohio’s COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns, and government overreach.
In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute outlines the “dangerous [and] unintended consequences” of the Biden Administration’s anticipated student loan forgiveness plan, writing, “Rightly pilloried as a bailout for rich kids, forgiving federal student loan debt rewards the risky behavior of those who promised to repay loans after going to college by taxing workers who have either been repaying college debts for years or never borrowed money for school in the first place.”
In The Lima News, The Buckeye Institute looks at the harmful effects of Ohio House Bill 235—the High Hazard Training Certification Act. “With Ohio already lagging the rest of the country in dynamism, innovation and competitiveness, state policymakers should seek ways to make the workforce more flexible and more responsive to market changes, not less. The General Assembly’s pending proposal, however, does neither. Instead, it will only make hiring more expensive and risk higher consumer prices down the road.”
In the Akron Beacon Journal, The Buckeye Institute cautions Summit County officials against “committing millions of dollars of temporary federal COVID-19 funds to build a permanent government-owned broadband network,” writing, “Communities that need better broadband service should…partner with private providers and pursue the state’s new residential broadband program or use the federal COVID-19 money to create vouchers for consumers to purchase broadband services from private providers. Either option is less risky for Summit County taxpayers than the county’s current plan.”;
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The long-awaited Ohio Afterschool Child Enrichment (Ohio ACE) program has finally launched. The Buckeye Institute has promoted Ohio ACE and similar policy initiatives to help families better afford K-12 learning resources and improve their children’s education. Families have faced significant disruptions to schooling over the past two years, and Ohio’s first education savings account program has arrived just in time to help families pay for a variety of necessary educational services.
O’Connor and Company talks with The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt and Buckeye’s client Eric Flannery, who was able reopen his Northeast D.C. restaurant The Big Board after the District of Columbia agreed to lift its suspension of Mr. Flannery’s liquor license and reinstate The Big Board’s operating license.
Following Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech, The Buckeye Institute takes to The Cincinnati Enquirer to outline how Ohio can address past policy missteps and modernize the state’s economic system, writing, “Ohio is not yet where it needs to be, but Mr. DeWine has good reason for his buoyant optimism. And by correcting prior mistakes and making better economic policy choices, Ohio may soon be ‘coming for it all.’”
For nearly two years, the District of Columbia has invoked emergency powers—imposing mask mandates for schools and businesses and requiring restaurants to check customers’ vaccine status. Eric Flannery, a Navy veteran and co-owner of The Big Board, and his lawyer, Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, joined The Daily Signal Podcast to explain why they’re fighting for The Big Board’s survival in a city where political leaders have amassed unprecedented power.
