On The Kasich Campaign Trail

We are certain to hear the headline repeated over and over but I doubt very much that the the news below the fold will be seen or heard.

The economic top tier of folks in Ohio are doing just fine thank you very much

From the Columbus Dispatch

Ohio’s economy might have partially recovered from the recession, but many Ohio children have not.

There are 53,000 more Ohio children living in poverty and the overall rate is higher than during the recession in 2008, according to 2015 Kids Count data released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

The state’s child-poverty rate rose to 23 percent last year from 18 percent in 2008, the report showed. Ohio is 31st worst in the nation in child-poverty rate and 23rd overall, about the same as last year.

The annual report by the nonprofit foundation considers a wide variety of economic, health and educational factors in assessing the well-being of children nationally and in all 50 states individually.

“Although we are several years past the end of the recession, millions of families across the country still have not benefited from the economic recovery,” Patrick McCarthy, president and chief executive officer of the Casey Foundation, said in a statement. “While we’ve seen an increase in employment in recent years, many of these jobs are low-wage and cannot support even basic family expenses.

“Far too many families are still struggling to provide for the day-to-day needs of their children.

Posted by Paul Hunter