Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and his primary opponents all oppose raising the minimum wage. Both Moreno and Matt Dolan believe the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. Says who? Here’s what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to say about wages over 90 years ago: “It seems to me to be […]
Minimum wage debate has the wrong focus Read Post »
Columbus suffers from a lack of housing, and especially affordable housing, a problem that hits low income neighborhoods the hardest. Those same neighborhoods also lack resources–think libraries, YMCAs and community centers. How do we engage the residents of those communities to consolidate their voices to gain access to more resources, and how we get those
Not all neighborhoods are equal Read Post »
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther wants to fix our affordable housing problem – 54,000 central Ohio households spend more than half their income on housing – which disproportionately affects minorities. Median household income for Black households in Columbus is $35,569, which is 40% less than that of white households, and nearly 40% of Black workers make
Affordable housing needs a whole new approach Read Post »
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a problem we refuse to resolve—too many Americans being paid too low a wage—and illustrates a lack of concern for Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder. Let’s look at the numbers. More than 53 million people—44% of all workers aged 18-64—earn median hourly wages of
COVID-19 disproportionately affects low wage earners Read Post »
Sometimes we hear things that make us uncomfortable, ideas that challenge a core belief. Almost by reflex, we reject such ideas if for no other reason few of us readily accept change. We have concluded for generations that capitalism is king, that it’s the best economic system on the planet. Author Richard Rohr questions whether
Has capitalism distorted our world view? Read Post »