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Can Ohio do better than a gas tax suspension?
Economists note the $725 million gas tax holiday skips 370,000 no-car households and would give at-risk families more relief through rebates or tax credits.
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Prediction markets spend millions to influence state, federal governments
Kalshi hired lobbyists in 41 states and funded both parties' AG groups as a federal agency with four vacancies sues states trying to regulate the industry.
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Hiring slows in September with job growth of 29K
Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards calls it a textbook weak report as wages trail inflation and August, July job gains were revised sharply downward.
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Anxiety is growing Trump may try to disrupt the midterm elections. States are prepping.
Denver and voting rights groups have already sued over DHS claims ICE can serve warrants at polling sites, citing incidents in three states this year.
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Congressional Republicans want permitting reform. An Ohio project shows how tricky that could be.
Darke, Shelby, Miami and Champaign county officials all back the $1.1 billion power line, as long as it crosses someone else's land instead.
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5 Haitians from Springfield, Ohio, have been deported after Trump ended protected status
Deportees arrive in Haiti amid a State Department Do Not Travel advisory, as a 20-year-old Wright State student's death by suicide has shaken Springfield's community.
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How is Ohio doing amid safety-net cuts? Trump hasn’t released the data
Advocates say the Census Bureau's delayed poverty data and USDA's scrapped food-insecurity survey mask fallout from SNAP and ACA cuts that hit Ohio hardest.
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Ohio’s average public school teacher salary ranks 23rd in the nation, according to report
Ohio starting teacher pay ranks 46th nationally at $42,222, as gubernatorial rivals Ramaswamy and Acton both pitch raising salaries from a $35,000 base.
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Ramaswamy-owned business left Ohio for Texas
Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Enterprises and was listed as majority owner when the company moved to Dallas in 2024.
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Ohio lawmakers approve 90-day gas tax holiday just weeks ahead of election
Democrats say the $725 million measure, pushed by governor candidate Ramaswamy, was rushed through with no amendments allowed and only $3 weekly savings.
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Husted blamed government benefits for ‘out-of-wedlock birth,’ said they ‘drive the father out of the household’
The 2025 podcast remarks preceded Husted's January bill to overhaul federal benefits, part of a pattern of comments on poverty dating back to 2016.
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Ohio job growth is slowing, analysis says
Ohio's falling unemployment masks a shrinking workforce, 95,000 fewer Ohioans working or job-hunting than a year ago despite population growth, Policy Matters says.
