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Ballot measure would eliminate carveouts that hold pay down for tipped workers, disabled workers, youth

Nearly 1 million working Ohioans would benefit from a ballot measure that could appear before Ohio voters this November, according to the report we released today.

“From the food processing workers who help us get dinner on the table to the childcare workers who keep our kids safe while we’re at work, Ohioans depend on some of the lowest-paid workers in the state,” said Policy Matters Ohio economist and report author, Michael Shields. “Everyone who works deserves a wage that honors the value of their work and meets the cost of living, but for too long corporations have held wages down even as Ohio workers became more productive than ever before. Raising Ohio’s minimum wage to $15 per hour is a major step toward restoring justice to our job market.”

Low-paid workers in Ohio are paid less than their grandparents were half a century ago: The federal minimum wage at its 1968 peak was worth more than $14 per hour in today’s dollars. Now an Ohioan with a family of three who works full time at minimum wage is paid $21,736 a year: $4,084 below the poverty level.

The ballot measure would raise the Ohio minimum wage to $15 per hour in two steps by 2026, and phase out the sub-minimum wage employers can pay tipped workers by 2029. The measure would end separate treatment for tipped workers, youth, and workers with a disability. Under current Ohio law, employers of tipped workers can claim a portion of their wages as a so-called “tip credit” and reduce the wage they receive to as little as half the minimum wage. If the measure passes, tipped workers will be paid the full minimum wage with tips on top.

Key findings:

• Raising Ohio’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026 will benefit nearly 1 million working Ohioans: 19% of the Ohio workforce. This includes 470,000 who are currently paid less than $15 who will receive a direct benefit, and 500,000 currently paid up to $17.25, who will get a raise as employers adjust pay scales.

-Raising the minimum wage will generate $2 billion in new annual earnings by 2026.

-The average affected worker will take home an additional $2,128 each year. That’s $3,400 for the lowest-paid Ohioans who will see a direct increase, and $1,911 for those already paid a little more.

-Three in five of the people whose pay will go up are women. Raising the wage will reduce gender pay inequity.

-White workers make up the largest share of people who will benefit (70%). But for reasons related to structural racism, Black and Latine workers are more often pushed into low-paid jobs, so disproportionately large shares of those groups will benefit (30% of each). The same is true for workers grouped under “other races”: 33% of them will get a raise. Out of all white workers, 17% will get a raise; out of all Asian Ohioans workers, 16%.

-Most affected workers are adults aged 20+ (80%) who have already finished high school (80%). More parents will benefit from the ballot measure than teens.

“No matter their race, gender, age or where they work, all working people deserve to be paid a livable wage,” said Shields.

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/135/sb137

It should be up to the electorate to decide if we want Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) or not. Let the senators know that the amendment should be allowed on the ballot and to vote no on this bill.

Now, I’m not a judgmental person at all. I believe in freedom of speech to the max. But for a law firm in DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND to have a Michigan Wolverines banner hanging from their office window, how is that a brilliant marketing ploy? All that’s going to do is piss some people off. I couldn’t imagine an office in Downtown Detroit hanging an Ohio State banner from their office window and thinking it’s going to go down well. Just a bad decision, in my opinion.

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<< Over the weekend, the U.S. House passed a long-awaited aid package for Ukraine. Lawmakers also approved funding for Israel and Taiwan, not to mention other measures that could wind up sending frozen Russian assets to Ukraine or forcing the sale of TikTok.

But while each proposal had its detractors, the real hold up was Ukrainian aid. Among some Republicans, opposition to U.S. involvement in the war has become a defining principle, and Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance is perhaps its loudest advocate....

Ohio’s congressional delegation largely supported the measure, with just three Republican members, Reps. Troy Balderson, Warren Davidson, and Jim Jordan, voting against the proposal.

In a statement, a [Republican Senate nominee Bernie] Moreno spokeswoman explained he “would have supported the Israel aid in the package, but would have opposed the larger bill.” >>

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/04/23/ohioans-react-to-u-s-house-passage-of-ukraine-aid/

Passage of the bill was a major win for Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who also, unlike J.D. Vance and Brown's Senate opponent Bernie Moreno, strongly supports supplying aid to Ukraine.

<<Sen. Sherrod Brown, however, emphasized a different piece of legislation wrapped into that bill.

The 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act incorporates Brown’s Fend Off Fentanyl Act, which he emphasized is “endorsed by law enforcement and sanctions the chemical suppliers in China and the Mexican drug cartels bringing fentanyl into communities across Ohio.”

“This bipartisan national security legislation is critical to combating some of the biggest threats this country faces — including fentanyl traffickers, the Chinese Communist Party, Vladimir Putin, and Iran and its terrorist proxies,” Brown said in a statement.

“The Senate must move quickly to pass this legislation,” he added, “because if we don’t, they will be cheering in Tehran, Beijing and Moscow.”>>

Hopefully, this new anti-fentanyl bill will materially reduce illegal fentanyl, fentanyl addictions, and fentanyl deaths, in Ohio and nationally. Ohio has one of the higher death rates for residents under 40 in the U.S. due to accidental overdoses.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/09/07/death-rates-for-people-under-40-have-skyrocketed-blame-fentanyl/

Even Ohio children under age 7 are dying due to fentanyl poisoning.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/01/18/fentanyl-claims-young-lives-northeast-ohio-deaths-spike-nationwide/

It will be interesting to see how the hundreds of thousands of Ohioans of Ukrainian and Eastern European descent, especially in Greater Cleveland, view Republican opponents of Ukrainian aid, including Donald Trump, come November.

<<Vice President of the United Ukrainian Organizations of Ohio George Jaskiw shared a written statement on behalf of the group thanking the House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, “who together met the challenge of history.” The organization noted 79% of the Ohio delegation, including members from both parties, voted in favor of aid for Ukraine.

“The passage of the appropriations by the House of Representatives,” Jaskiw said, “confirms that our people and representatives understand how geopolitical situations far from our state borders impact our prosperity and security.”>>

E.g., the large Greater Cleveland Hungarian community strongly remembers ancestors who fled Communist/Soviet oppression and settled in Ohio. Ditto, the Greater Cleveland Polish community.

https://www.clevelandmemory.org/hungarian/

https://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/ukrainian/ukrainian.htm

Even the powerful Cleveland Foundation facilitates aid for Ukraine.

https://www.clevelandfoundation.org/2022/03/ukraine/

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