Hannah Halbert

Executive director @PolicyMattersOH. Makes charts and knits blankets in Columbus. Raised in coal country.

[Erica Williams @EricaWilli]

Interrupting your regularly scheduled twitter programming to invite you to join an exciting new campaign led by 16 local and national orgs (including @DCFPI) to build solidarity with neighbors across the country for #DCStatehood

[Policy Matters Ohio @PolicyMattersOH]

@J_Lautzenheiser Every school district relies on property taxes to fund our kids' education. Our new analysis includes data for every district--and indicates suburban districts would be especially hard-hit by property tax repeal.

https://t.co/c9Rf4eM40j

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

Wow...
GOP former Ohio House Speaker rips current GOP speaker for trying to "totally blow up Medicaid in Ohio" w/secretive last-minute supposed reform to combat fraud that actually "will have the exact opposite effect of what we have been working towards" on a bipartisan basis

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

More than 120 Ohio public school districts are projecting negative cash balances by 2029 – the worst rate since the Great Recession. https://t.co/uysQfxrYow

[Columbus Dispatch @DispatchAlerts]

Ohio urged to rethink big tech as data center boom accelerates https://t.co/SGpTz8wCNb

[America's Work Force @AWFUnionPodcast]

.@OFTunion President Melissa Cropper joins AWF on the midnight pension board raid, HB 698's attack on higher ed bargaining and union busting at Columbus Metropolitan Library — with a community rally June 7 at Franklin Park.
https://t.co/7Xt0OsLRSb

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

Ohio's sales tax exemption for builders of new data centers was expected to cost ~$136 million in 2025.

The Department of Taxation now says the tax break cost Ohio **$1.57** billion in lost revenue, with most the savings flowing to Big Tech. https://t.co/3vjZxlg0iZ

[America's Work Force @AWFUnionPodcast]

16.5 million union workers in 2025 — a 16-year high. Workers of color, young workers and the South driving the surge. EPI's Margaret Poydock joins AWF to break down what the numbers really mean.
https://t.co/yNegufIy3O

[America's Work Force @AWFUnionPodcast]

The coal industry denied black lung existed, while thousands of miners died from it every year.

In 1969, 40,000 miners walked off the job in an unauthorized wildcat strike. They marched on the state capitol. They won.

🎙️ Day 9 | #WorkersMemorialDay presented by @BlueLabor

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

So-called “submetering” companies are in fact public utilities, the Ohio Supreme Court rules, driving a dagger through the heart of an industry critics say has spiked electric costs for renters who became trapped in a novel business model.

[Nick Castele @NickCastele]

Mayor Justin Bibb's administration went through the Board of Control — sidestepping Cleveland City Council — to sign on for another year of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. https://t.co/fyyxcj3p7i

[Policy Matters Ohio @PolicyMattersOH]

Federal $ help OH schools provide special ed, tutoring, career training & resources for schools serving high-poverty communities.

Join Parents United for Public Schools in protecting federal $ that public school kids, families & communities count on.

https://t.co/M2ADPKEZxs

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

Ohio's urban counties lose in GOP-run legislature's newly passed SNAP funding allocation
But one GOP lawmaker said, “I don't think this is about accountability & efficiency. It's about ending a popular program without having the stones to say so outright"
https://t.co/v45o7OJfXZ

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

Major solar developer after Ohio laws kill the $98 million Crossroads Solar, the 7th rejected utility scale project since 2020.

“This is no longer a good business proposition. We’re not starting any new projects in Ohio.” https://t.co/bbSWn5xEIx

[Jan Resseger @JanResseger]

Policy Matters Ohio summarizes Ohio's failure to fund essential public institutions and services.
https://t.co/zVHN6xldwt

[Policy Matters Ohio @PolicyMattersOH]

Space limited!

In May we’re hosting ~*Reimagining the Silicon Heartland*~ (with lunch!) at the Ohio Statehouse Atrium. We’ll have three panel discussions on data centers and Intel’s projects in Ohio.

Sign up now: https://t.co/74vU29YEmw

[Ohio River Valley Institute @O_R_V_I]

JobsOhio, the Buckeye State’s economic development arm, hasn’t delivered a jobs boom. Copying the program isn’t likely to help West Virginians, either.

More: https://t.co/MiyVPQDcWI

[Nick Castele @NickCastele]

As expected, Judge Solomon Oliver did not rule on Cleveland/DOJ’s motion to end the consent decree today.

“The city has made a lot of progress,” he said, noting it was “also good to hear candid conversations about…the work that needs to be done.” 
https://t.co/eNaNZu3lBH

[Nick Castele @NickCastele]

Want to see if this will get Cleveland news to cut through the X noise. Here's another thread on the great work my @signalcleveland colleagues have been turning out lately 🧵:

[Policy Matters Ohio @PolicyMattersOH]

Ohio lawmakers are moving forward with HB 649—a bill that treats families and child care providers like suspects, requiring kids to have their photo taken daily just to check into child care.

Sign the petition to tell the committee to vote NO on HB 649.

https://t.co/wgXQqvduYk