This article first appeared on Policy Matters Ohio$1.6B: Amount of revenue lost to Ohio’s data center sales tax exemption last year — about 11 times the originally projected cost. Back in January of 2025, we called that original number a lowball estimate, but we didn’t know it would be that low.…

Fifty-four of Ohio’s largest employers paid their CEOs a median of 322 times what they paid the typical employee in 2020, according to a new report by Policy Matters Ohio. The federal Dodd-Frank Act requires publicly traded companies provide the ratio of CEO pay to the median…

Juneteenth is a day to honor the resilience and tenacity of those who survived slavery and fought for justice and freedom. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger brought news to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, that they were freed in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln'…

In a virtual press conference today, Policy Matters Ohio unveiled a proposal to clean up and rebalance Ohio’s upside-down tax code. By adopting the plan, Ohio lawmakers could direct $1.94 billion in public resources to shore up the state budget weakened by the pandemic recession…