The April 2014 Ohio By the Numbers report continues to paint a mixed picture for Ohio’s economy. On the positive side, Ohio’s private sector gained jobs and the unemployment rate sharply declined.
The Ohio House of Representatives was poised to pass Senate Bill 310 this week—a piece of legislation that would implement a two-year freeze on the state’s energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.
A new Buckeye Institute report analyzing the proposed continuing zoo levy raises three serious questions for Franklin County voters to consider before heading to the polls on May 6.
The Buckeye Institute’s recent Columbus Dispatch op-ed by our Statehouse Liaison and Policy Analyst, Greg R. Lawson, asks of Ohio policymakers: “is a state really open for business when its local governments require some businesses to file not one, not two, but between 30 and 40 W-2 tax forms for their employees?"
On Wednesday, February 12, The Buckeye Institute’s Statehouse Liaison and Policy Analyst—Greg R. Lawson—offered interested party testimony to the Ohio Senate Public Utilities Committee regarding Senate Bill 34. This bill, sponsored by Sen. Kris Jordan (R- Ostrander) would repeal Ohio’s current advanced and renewable energy portfolio.
Over the past year, grave warnings of an ongoing crisis have been issued from politically left-leaning think tanks like Policy Matters Ohio all the way up to the President of the United States. This relentless drumbeat of doom, the specter of which demanded our federal executive to act without Congressional action, would have Americans believe that without a minimum wage increase, countless millions of people will fall into oblivion.
A new report, released Wednesday, April 9, by The Buckeye Institute finds that opponents of the federal government’s Common Core Standards rightly worry that the Obama Administration has found a backdoor into a “national, student-level” database that will house sensitive information about our students.
Margaret Thatcher, one of the most consequential of Great Britain’s 20th Century Prime Ministers, passed away earlier today, thus closing a major chapter of conservative and free market history.
The February 2014 Ohio By the Numbers report is the to incorporate the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) new annual benchmarks. Using the new benchmarks that showed higher job creation numbers since 2010 than initially reported, Ohio’s national private sector job ranking since improved from December’s rank of 34 to 25 in February.
Taxes are as inevitable as death. Yet, in nine states (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming), residents are not paying a dime in income taxes on their wages.
