In March, the Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 30, which would allow employers to schedule children ages 14 and 15 for work as late as 9:00 p.m., beyond the 7:00 p.m. limit maintained by federal law. We expect the Ohio House to vote on and pass this bill in the coming days. Then it will go to Governor Dewine to be signed into law. The Governor says he has a commitment to Ohio children, and we need all hands on deck urging him to veto this bill. Not only is it in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, it's just plain wrong for our kids. Please sign on and share, we will be delivering the petition, with all our names, in person when the time comes for him to consider signing.

The U.S. Congressional House passed — by a single vote — a federal budget that cuts health care and food assistance Ohioans depend on. The budget pays for tax cuts that most benefit the richest Americans by making the largest cuts in history to Medicaid and SNAP, alongside cuts to education and clean energy programs.

The school funding proposal put forward by Speaker Huffman provides the vast majority of Ohio districts far less than the actual cost of educating kids, returning Ohio to the days of funding schools b...

Kia Reyes Woodward, a Columbus City Schools parent, said the cuts would be unfair, especially after voters recently passed a levy.

Hearings for the Governor’s proposed budget just finished in the Children and Human Services Committee, and Policy Matters testified on the Publicly Funded Child Care (PFCC) system in the state. Broad...

A union representing Transportation Security Administration workers calls the Department of Homeland Security's decision to end the collective bargaining agreement with them an “unprovoked attack.”

Learn more To learn more about the high cost of child care, check out these EPI resources: EPI Policy Agenda: Education and Child Care  EPI Family Budget Calculator  EPI Minimum Wage Tracker...

Voucher programs siphon funds, weaken public schools UPDATE (3/4/25): The original version of this release used out-of-date information about the change in private-school enrollment compared to vouche...

Voucher programs siphon funds, weaken public schools Ohio’s voucher programs use public funds to subsidize tuition at eligible private K-12 schools. Ohio has three general education voucher programs –...