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The city will use $800,000 to erase around $200 million in medical debt

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with an organization that buys

The city of Toledo is using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with an organization that buys debt and wipes the slate clean for debtors.

Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt.

Governments in Ohio and Illinois use ARPA money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with group that buys debt. 

Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt by partnering with an organization that buys debt and wipes the slate clean for debtors. It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar problem.

Local governments in Ohio and Illinois are using American Rescue Plan Act money to relieve residents struggling with medical debt.

It’s a strategy advocates say could be duplicated across the country to help erase a multibillion-dollar medical debt problem.

Next week the United States Census Bureau will release its annualreport on "poverty" stating, as it has for many years, that thereare some 31 million to 32 million poor Americans, a number greaterthan in 1965 when the War on Poverty began.

Numerous studies, including two separate analyses by The Heritage Foundation, have concluded that federal workers do receive a substantial wage premium. Most of these studies have used the cross-sectional human capital method, which compares federal workers to private workers who have the same skills. The cross-sectional method is not perfect, however, and supplemental analyses can be useful in confirming its results. Rather than comparing workers at a single point in time, this report follows i...