The Buckeye Institute’s longtime advocacy of expanding healthcare access and charity care–especially in low-income and underserved areas of Ohio–has found expression in two bills introduced to Ohio’s General Assembly in the past 24 hours.
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Ohio policymakers should prioritize job growth as the best way to provide Ohioans with the opportunity to achieve prosperity. After all, the best program for reducing poverty is not a government program, but a job that can lead to upward mobility. However, hiking minimum wage is not a solution.
The Ohio legislature is considering a new capital appropriations budget. Local groups from all over Ohio have submitted requests to get state money for their pet projects. For nearly every one, the legislature should say N-O.
In 2014, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley worked with city officials and workers to arrive at a “historic agreement” to avert a crisis and stabilize their pension system. The deal was finalized in early 2015 and took effect in January of this year. Both sides had to make sacrifices to come to an agreement, but officials optimistically project that, if everything goes as planned, the pension system could be fully funded in only 10 years.
There are a few principles so fundamental to American law and our notion of justice that practically any citizen can recite them—due process of law, every person is entitled to his or her day in court, innocent until proven guilty, just to name a few. These are things we have come to expect from our legal system. Unfortunately, these principles are glaringly absent from one area of law—asset forfeiture.
Excessive licensing requirements are forcing talented Ohioans to leave for other states to achieve career success. The Buckeye State needs to reform its burdensome and bureaucratic occupational licensing rules so the young and ambitious can prosper here.
The Buckeye Institute joined West Virginia and other states in filing two important legal briefs Friday challenging the Clean Power Plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors testified February 2 on occupational licensing before a United States Senate Subcommittee. The White House’s chief economist Jason Furman noted, “The share of the U.S. workforce covered by State licensing laws grew from less than 5 percent in the early 1950s to 25 percent by 2008.”
Don made his presentation Wednesday to the Ohio House State Government Committee. He urged approval of S.B. 152, which would prohibit local governments from requiring contractors hire a certain percentage of workers from a specific political subdivision. We appreciate Don’s approving a reprint of his testimony.
The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case involving the Springfield City School District’s sordid use of Ohio’s public records law to thwart school choice. The high court’s hearing is a well-timed coincidence: This is National School Choice Week, so a public display of how public schools fight against educational options makes for students makes for a “teachable moment.”
