$700M: Late last month, Ohio and Intel reached an agreement on how the tech giant would be held accountable for the promises it made to secure state funding related its two semiconductor fabrication plants in New Albany. The agreement covers $600 million in public funding — but it leaves out.
Participatory Budgeting Cleveland is supporting proposed legislation which would create a resident steering committee to help decide how $5 million in American Rescue Plan Funds would be spent.
A recent Ohio poll sponsored by Policy Matters Ohio found that a majority of Ohio voters support increasing tax rates on the wealthy, on the state's corporations, and also want to see the state's minimum wage raised.