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Poverty Speaks: Making tough choices
Cleveland is the second poorest large city in the United States, yet policymakers and community leaders rarely have the opportunity to hear from large numbers of people who live at or near the poverty...
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Poverty Speaks: Climbing out of poverty
Cleveland is the second poorest large city in the United States, yet policymakers and community leaders rarely have the opportunity to hear from large numbers of people who live at or near the poverty...
View ArticleNew census numbers, what we’re keeping an eye on
September is an exciting month for the researchers at The Center for Community Solutions. Each fall the U.S. Census Bureau releases updated data on a host of indicators that we watch closely. While the...
View ArticleNumber of uninsured Ohioans, children climbing
According to new information released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Ohioans who do not have health insurance has gone up. In 2018, 744,000 Ohioans did not have health insurance,...
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What helps poor families? A look at new census data
Officially, nearly 1.5 million Ohioans lived below poverty, according to 2018 data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 10. But thanks to a myriad of government assistance programs, the...
View ArticleCleveland ranks 1-2-3 in poverty
Among the largest U.S. cities, Cleveland is worst in child poverty, second for working-age adults and third in older-adult poverty, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week....
View ArticleWho was uninsured in Cuyahoga County in 2018?
In 2018, more than 70,000 Cuyahoga County residents did not have health insurance coverage, making up 5.7 percent of the population. These results come from just-released data from the Census Bureau’s...
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Populations in more Ohio counties flip, now have more older adults than children
The recent release of the 2018 one-year estimates of the American Community Survey is a special day for population data nerds. As we anxiously await for data.census.gov to update the tables with fresh...
View ArticleWhy I’m nervous about the census
The census – the constitutionally mandated effort by the government to count each person living on U.S. soil every 10 years- is one of this country’s original grassroots movements. It is a more...
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Election Update: Ohio voters overwhelmingly approve health and social service...
Ohio voters in communities across the state overwhelmingly approved renewals, replacements and increases of property tax levies that support health and social services. Few health and social service...
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Poverty Speaks: Racial Disparities
In Cuyahoga County, poverty disproportionately impacts people of color In 2017, nearly 1 in 5 people in Cuyahoga County lived in poverty. But poverty is not distributed evenly. Black people were more...
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Harm reduction, drug users’ health take center stage at state HIV planning...
This month, the HIV, STI & Viral Hepatitis Interventions and Treatment Section of the Ohio Department of Health’s Office of Health Improvement and Wellness held its Combined Community Planning...
View ArticleThe poorer your neighborhood, the shorter your life
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View ArticleJohn Corlett’s top 10 reports from 2019
Producing a “top 10” list of Community Solutions publications is a dangerous undertaking. There is so much excellent content it’s hard to just pick 10 pieces. In 2019 alone we wrote 90 blog posts, not...
View ArticleTerm limits in Ohio: Which legislators can’t run to keep their seats in...
The Ohio General Assembly is the legislative branch of Ohio’s state government and consists of two chambers, a 99-member Ohio House of Representatives and a 33-member Ohio Senate. All 99 members of...
View ArticleImpact SNAP changes will have on Ohio, Medicaid
On January 10, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) submitted a request to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
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Data shows drop in unintentional drug overdose deaths in 2018
Drug overdose deaths in Ohio declined in 2018 to a three-year low of 3,764. This comes after a year (2017) where the state saw its highest ever number (4,854) of overdose deaths. This updated...
View ArticleCensus Jobs – How might income from a census job impact government assistance...
Getting a complete count in the U.S. Census is a huge undertaking, and part of that work involves hiring nearly 500,000 temporary employees to work as census takers throughout the country. Here in...
View ArticlePrimary races, levies on the ballot March 17
The State of Ohio will hold primary elections on March 17. In addition to primary contests for legislators and the President of the United States, voters in 17 Ohio counties, including Cuyahoga County,...
View ArticleThe census in the season of Coronavirus
April 1, 2020 is Census Day. The federal government has been planning for this day, and the rollout of invitation that preceded it, for the past decade. But no one could have foreseen at the time that...
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