“Mike DeWine, U.S. House speaker Mike Johnson to headline fundraiser for anti-redistricting amendment campaign.” This is how terrified they are of fair representation. They will do anything to avoid accountability so they can continue to soak Ohio voters. cleveland.com/news/2024/08/g…

Private equity has been slowly consolidating the childcare industry for years, driving prices up by more than 32% since 2019. Childcare should be no more than $10 a day with childcare workers making $20 an hour as a floor. I'm working on a bill to make that happen.

Commentary: Prominent elected Ohio Republicans are scapegoating Springfield with racist, xenophobic lies. That helps keep everyone distracted from the extremist proposals outlined by former Trump administration officials in Project 2025. By Marilou Johanek ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/17/the…

Public tax dollars shouldn’t fund private religious schools for the same reason that taxpayer money meant for public parks shouldn’t fund pools in a megachurch pastor’s backyard. If religious schools want taxpayer money, then churches should pay taxes. propublica.org/article/ohio-t…

“He doesn't care about the real suffering of the people of Springfield or any other Ohio community. If he did, he would be elevating the truth instead of creating dehumanizing lies that should be beneath a senator from the nation's seventh largest state.”

"I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien" -- JD Vance on Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally

Kind of gives a big F you kind of lie to the idea that “it’s illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants” that they’re so worked up over, eh? Seems almost like it’s just anybody that they don’t like.

Last night Trump said, "Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented." Tariffs can be used strategically, but a blanket tariff like he's been proposing is effectively just a sales tax on American consumers. His plan would cost a typical family an extra $3,900 per year.

PSA: Break your New York Times Games streak today aftermath.site/times-tech-gui…

In Ohio, families making less than $24K pay more annual taxes today than they did before 2005. Households among the top 1%, with incomes above $647K, contribute an average of $52K less per year than they once did.

Tax Policy Center analysis shows that a 20% global tariff and a 60% tariff on Chinese goods would lower average after-tax incomes by an average of 2.9 percent in 2025. tpc.io/4f3Fg4M

Since 2021, the federal government has announced more than $16.5 billion in funding to Ohio through legislation whose future is now uncertain. Read our latest report for all the in-the-weeds details: policymattersohio.org/research-polic…

I just wrote a Action Network letter: Tell Your Legislators to Oppose SB 295. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…

This is why care-response policies, like those advocated by ⁦Policy Matters Ohio⁩, are critical to racial justice. nytimes.com/2024/12/03/mag… via The New York Times

Private-school vouchers are now universal in 12 states--available to families of any income, used mostly by those who already had kids in private school. It's a huge, underappreciated shift. For ProPublica and The New Yorker, I tell the story of the movement's triumph in one state.

I just wrote a Action Network letter: Tell Your State Legislators to Protect Education for ALL Our Kids!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…

I just wrote a Action Network letter: Tell Governor DeWine to veto SB 1/HB 6: The Higher Education Destruction Act. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-g…

I just wrote a letter to ensure women in prison have access to free feminine hygiene products. This is about dignity, period. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/hb29-m…

I just wrote a letter: Tell Senators Moreno and Husted to protect healthcare for Ohioans. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-s…

I just wrote a Action Network letter: Tell your elected representatives: Ohio's flat tax proposal cuts resources of the many for the benefit of the very few. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-oh…