Sixty-one years ago this month, Howard University students and allies walked into the People's Drug Store on Lee Highway in Arlington. For the next two weeks,.
Posted May 15, 2021 in eNews
295,000: Although Gov. DeWine announced Ohio will soon stop accepting the federal government’s $300-per-month supplemental unemployment benefit, the state has 295,000 fewer jobs than before the pandemic started. The $300 supplement has been a lifeline for Ohioans, putting money in their pockets and supporting businesses even as many temporarily closed down or slowed operations. As Hannah Halbert explained, the best way for employers to attract new workers is to pay a good wage and offer decent benefits. Michael Shields made similar points on WCPN’s the Sound of Ideas, where he was joined by other workers and worker advocates, including Rosa, from the Northeast Ohio Worker Center.
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The inside of La Sagrada Familia Church on Cleveland’s West Side was the site of a vaccination clinic earlier this month. Vaccination numbers have lagged in recent weeks, meaning fewer people are going to clinics like these.
Carmella Tidmore started working with a state of Ohio COVID-19 response team to fill appointment spots at the Wolstein Center’s mass vaccination site in late March. But trying to convince people to get the shot in Cleveland’s Buckeye, Mt. Pleasant and Central neighborhoods, where vaccine hesitancy is running high, was not an easy sell.
“I had people literally tear the fliers up in my face,” she recalled of the flat-out refusal of people she handed information to at McDonald’s and Dollar General.