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Why is job growth slowing in Ohio?

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A new analysis shows that while Ohio officials have a little reason to be proud of relatively low unemployment rates, the bigger picture is disturbing. Job growth is slowing to a crawl. Policy Matters Ohio reports one reason for slowed job growth alongside low unemployment is that employers are more cautious about hiring. Nationwide, there is stronger than expected hiring, but Policy Matters researcher Molly Bryden told the Ohio Capital Journal that signals more a recovery from an earlier slowdown than a continued upward trend. And here in the Buckeye State, the number of people ...

Ohio manufacturing is back

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Manufacturing has long been treated as a bellwether for the broader economy. It underwrites supply chains, sustains communities built around industrial employment and determines whether the United States retains the capacity to produce what it needs without relying on foreign suppliers. By ...

Trump deserves credit for outsmarting Iranians

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Iran’s strategy in this war was never complicated. The mullahs believed that if they choked the Strait of Hormuz long enough, Americans would feel it at the gas pump and Washington would lose its nerve before the midterms. Brent crude spiked past $107 per barrel in September, and ...

Sound off!

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100% of property tax stays in your community to pay for the services you take for granted. Very little sales tax or income tax is returned to your town. Most of it goes to Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Police, fire, 911 dispatch, senior services, road maintenance, libraries and local health departments all depend on property tax. Townships do not have income taxes and would have no way to make up the loss of revenue. — Hubbard The 9/29 televised investigation of Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s big lie was a witch hunt. The GOP hacks mischaracterized, misrepresented, ...

The perfect metaphor at the UN

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The perfect metaphor to characterize the U.N. General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” You can’t make people understand the truth if they choose to ignore it. The problem with the Middle East is that both sides have their own “truth,” which is contradictory because the only alternative to truth is falsehood. Prime Minister Netanyahu, as he has done in previous U.N. appearances, laid out the truth which dozens of delegates didn’t want to hear. “Moral ...