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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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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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“School choice for every child, every family, every community”

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In The Lima News, The Buckeye Institute urges the Ohio Senate to make vouchers available to “every child and every family in every community,” writing, “The state has a $6 billion surplus of taxpayer money sitting in its coffers. As the Ohio Senate finalizes the state’s biennial budget, it should direct some of that excess to pay for putting K-12 students and their academic success first.”

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio Senate Should Expand School Choice

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In a new policy memo, Put Students First & Expand School Choice, The Buckeye Institute outlined how—by expanding school choice—Ohio lawmakers can help parents tailor learning resources to meet their child’s educational needs. Buckeye offered lawmakers four specific recommendations to “make it easier for families to provide the best education for their children” and pointed out that Ohio’s record-breaking surplus gives the Senate a historic opportunity to expand school choice to every child in every family in every community.;  

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The Buckeye Institute: Senate Has Opportunity to Improve Ohio’s Budget

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Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute, commented after the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 33, Ohio’s biennial budget, saying, “The Ohio Senate now has a golden opportunity to enact reforms that will further expand school choice, flatten Ohio’s income tax, reduce government spending, and close tax loopholes.”

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“In Buckeye Institute Case, Judge Stays Enforcement of Unconstitutional Gun Ordinance”

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The Buckeye Institute commented after Judge David M. Gormley granted Buckeye’s request for a preliminary injunction in Doe v. Columbus, staying the enforcement of Columbus City Ordinance 3176-2022, which—in violation of Ohio law and the U.S. and Ohio constitutions—outlaws certain firearms magazines in the city of Columbus. Judge Gormley also granted Buckeye’s request for its clients to proceed pseudonymously and denied the city of Columbus’s request to dismiss and transfer the case to a different court.

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The Buckeye Institute: Ohio Job Market Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Levels

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The Buckeye Institute commented on the newly released jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, saying, “In March, Ohio added 9,500 private-sector jobs for a total of 4,819,700 jobs, finally recovering all the jobs lost during the pandemic. And the unemployment rate of 3.8 percent is well below the pre-pandemic rate of 4.6 percent…It has taken three long years for the number of employed Ohioans to surpass the pre-pandemic level, but Ohio still faces challenges.”

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