Cost of employer-sponsored health insurance plans rises again, nonpartisan survey finds
KFF found workers paid 16% more for individual coverage in 2026, with deductibles doubling since 2011 even as IVF and GLP-1 coverage varies by company size.
Economy
Ohio labor market weakens in September
Analysts tie the 5,000 job losses to mass deportations, inflation outpacing wages, and an aging workforce, prompting warnings from Policy Matters Ohio to lawmakers.
Husted championed Ohio’s data center boom — and defended the billions in tax breaks that fueled it
Newly surfaced recordings capture Jon Husted praising data centers as a pipeline of jobs and economic growth. His years of support for the industry and its tax incentives preceded a $1.6 billion annual tax-break bill for Ohio and mounting concerns about electricity prices.
Ramaswamy’s companies used H-1B visas 88 times. Now executives tied to foreign-worker firms are funding his Ohio campaign.
Campaign filings show an Infinite Computer Solutions executive gave nearly $12,000, while Yass and Musk poured $35 million into a pro-Ramaswamy super PAC.
Ramaswamy-linked drug crashes wiped millions from public pension investments, including Ohio teachers’ fund
An examination of federal securities filings traces nearly $7.5 million in stock-price declines across public retirement funds invested in Axovant and Immunovant. Ohio's teachers' pension held shares in both.
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Ohio saw the biggest decline in homeownership affordability, new report shows
Mansfield led the state's slide as home prices jumped 121% since 2020, pricing out firefighters, teachers and mail carriers who once could afford homes there.
Ohio lawmakers introduce bills to add age limits, regulate electric bikes and electric scooters
Sponsors cite Akron Children's Hospital already topping its 2025 e-bike injury total by July and a fatal Columbus crash as lawmakers push a spring deadline.
Sherrod Brown explains his proposals to lower costs for Ohioans
The former Democratic Ohio senator is challenging current Republican Sen. Jon Husted in the Nov. 3 election.
Acton discusses plans for small business during Bexley campaign stop
A Bexley cafe owner says his electric bill jumped from $1,500 to $3,400 a month, prompting Acton to pitch small-business loans and health cost negotiations.
Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs
Polls show 74% of voters, including 66% of Republicans, blame Trump's tariffs for store price hikes, with Democrats from Ohio to Georgia campaigning to repeal them.
A construction ban on data centers would be better for Ohio than the status quo, study says
Scioto Analysis ran 10,000 simulations and found requiring data centers to use 90% renewable power scored best, after Ohio taxpayers covered $2.3 billion in subsidies.
With election pressure mounting, states move to suspend fuel taxes
Ohio Democratic leader Nickie Antonio calls her own chamber's gas tax holiday a late scramble tied to falling GOP poll numbers before the election.
$10 diesel? One Ohio analyst says it’s possible.
Analyst Eric Pachman says near-record-low reserves, delayed refinery maintenance and an Iran-driven export squeeze could push diesel past $10 a gallon.
Americans’ water bills are growing faster than groceries, overall inflation
Food and Water Watch found West Virginia households paid $1,383 for water last year versus $286 in Idaho, with for-profit utilities charging more than public systems.
Democrats more trusted on healthcare costs, survey shows
KFF poll finds 63% of Democrats feel more motivated to vote than in past elections, versus 38% of Republicans, ahead of November midterms.
Hiring slows in September with job growth of 29K
Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards calls it a textbook weak report as wages trail inflation and August, July job gains were revised sharply downward.
Congressional Republicans want permitting reform. An Ohio project shows how tricky that could be.
Darke, Shelby, Miami and Champaign county officials all back the $1.1 billion power line, as long as it crosses someone else's land instead.
How is Ohio doing amid safety-net cuts? Trump hasn’t released the data
Advocates say the Census Bureau's delayed poverty data and USDA's scrapped food-insecurity survey mask fallout from SNAP and ACA cuts that hit Ohio hardest.
Ramaswamy-owned business left Ohio for Texas
Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Enterprises and was listed as majority owner when the company moved to Dallas in 2024.
Husted blamed government benefits for ‘out-of-wedlock birth,’ said they ‘drive the father out of the household’
The 2025 podcast remarks preceded Husted's January bill to overhaul federal benefits, part of a pattern of comments on poverty dating back to 2016.
