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Loan cancellation doesn't benefit rich. Fix broken higher education funding. Taxpayers deserve refund for student loan forgiveness.
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Loan cancellation doesn't benefit rich. Fix broken higher education funding. Taxpayers deserve refund for student loan forgiveness.
In a new policy memo, Ohio’s Data Privacy Tradeoff, The Buckeye Institute outlined how lawmakers can improve the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (House Bill 376) to make good policy even better.
Senator Steve Wilson (R-7) introduced legislation that includes a number of policy recommendations made by The Buckeye Institute that will help Ohio attract and keep financial technology employers in Ohio.
The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House State and Local Government Committee on the policies in House Bill 203, which would embrace universal occupational license recognition for people moving to Ohio. In its testimony, Buckeye urged lawmakers to follow the lead of Arizona, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Utah and adopt universal occupational license recognition, saying, “House Bill 203’s licensing recognition…will help Ohio by helping would-be Ohio workers pursue careers and professions here.”
By Emma Riley | March 5, 2021 | 11:32am EST (Getty Images) (CNS News) – A new analysis by the Buckeye Institute, a free market think tank in Ohio, shows that raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour would kill at least 116,000 jobs in Ohio and at least 18,000 jobs in West Virginia. “While some individuals would benefit from a federally imposed minimum wage hike, it is clear from The Buckeye Institute’s analysis that many others—nearly 116,000 Ohioans—would suffer job loss,” said Logan Kolas, an economic policy analyst with the Economic Res...