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REPORT: A Justice Agenda for Black Women and Girls

August 28, 2023 by Editor

Innovation Ohio Education Fund is pleased to announce A Justice Agenda for Black Women and Girls.

This report focuses on ways in which currently pending or passed state-level policy harms or holds back the lives of Black women and girls. We examine ways in which housing, workforce, and education policies create barriers for Black women and girls face in their lives and in seeking justice. We will then offer policy solutions for state-level policy makers to implement in order to close the gap on discriminatory policies and practices.

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Reproductive Access and Women’s Economic Security: A Policy Prescription

December 18, 2017 by Editor

Last week, the Ohio legislature enacted another restriction on legal abortion by passing HB214, the Down syndrome abortion ban, into law. If signed by Governor Kasich, it will be the 20th restriction to abortion and reproductive health care enacted into law since 2011.

Our latest analysis looks at the relationship between public policies like these and their impact on women’s economic security. We find that without support for women’s reproductive choices – access to contraception and abortion services and workplace policies that support pregnant women and working moms – women will never achieve full equality and the economic security for their families that comes with it.

Highlights from our research:

More than half of teens who become pregnant fail to earn a high school diploma by age 22
Women with early access to contraception earn more later in life than their peers.
Women who are denied an abortion are three times more likely to end up living in poverty.
Only 15 percent of the civilian workforce receives any form of paid family leave benefits.

View the report: Reproductive Access and Women’s Economic Security – A Policy Prescription for Ohio

How the State of Ohio Can Reduce Food Insecurity

November 22, 2016 by Editor

Among poverty measurables, Ohio scores especially poorly on rates of food insecurity. Of all tools the state of Ohio has to combat food insecurity, nutrition education programs are the most effective options available to reduce food insecurity in the state. If the state of Ohio invested $16 million in its Ohio State Extension nutrition education programs, the state could lift a projected 24,000 Ohioans out of food insecurity.

See our full report here.