Numeric news from Policy Matters
$1,000: Our proposed Thriving Families Tax Credit would send on average an additional $1,000 each year to households with incomes under $85,000. Contrast that with the absurdly disproportionate benefits of flat tax proposals, including those in H.B. 1, of which the rich take home the lion’s.
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Chair Edwards, Vice Chair LaRe, Ranking Member Sweeney, and members of the Committee. I’m Hannah Halbert, I’m privileged to be the Executive Director of Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with a mission to make Ohio a more vibrant, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable place for all who live.
$2.6 billion: In the previous edition of Saturday Stats, we noted three major flaws in House Bill 1, any one of which should be enough to make Ohioans tell our reps to vote against it. This week, State Policy Fellow Guille Bervejillo, PhD, identified more reasons to toss HB 1,.