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Advocates for Ohio's Future News Highlights

Poverty and Supporting Work

• Cleveland.com: Middle-class jobs will continue slow growth rate, study finds
• The Columbus Dispatch: Central Ohio colleges have funds to help students in emergencies
• Cincinnati Enquirer: Probing needed to break child poverty's hold

Health Care

• The Center for Community Solutions: Platforming Value in Medicaid: The New Rules of the Health Care Marketplace
• The Columbus Dispatch: Medicaid insurer CareSource provides ‘life services’ to connect clients with education, jobs

Housing and Homelessness

• Cleveland.com: Make fair housing policies fair to those of lesser means in Greater Cleveland: Eva McKnight (Opinion)

Juvenile Justice

• 10TV: Buckeye Reach program helps troubled youth see better future

Child Protection

• Newark Advocate: County official begs state to help protect children

Early Childhood Education

• Cleveland.com: Ohio preschool funding policy cuts millions from schools serving poorest kids

Upcoming Events

• Advocates for Ohio's Future: Poverty Simulation (Steubenville)
  
• NASW Ohio Chapter: 20 Years Later: Welfare Reform & The Current State of TANF
  (Webinar)
• Voices for Ohio's Children: 2016 Regional Children's Forums (Toledo, Athens, Dayton, and Cincinnati)
• Public Children Services Association of Ohio: 2016 Annual Conference (Columbus)

Ohio’s communities thrive when people feel safe, have good jobs and can afford the basics. Unfortunately, a job doesn’t always mean a living. As incomes decline, more and more Ohioans are unable to afford the rising cost of the basics. People must be able to meet all their basic needs before they're able to work their way out of poverty.