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Restoring Prosperity to Ohio:

Ohio must restructure its economy, successfully deal with an aging and diversifying society, and find new solutions for a challenged environment. The state is at a uniquely promising policy moment – it is ready to implement unconventional responses to grow and sustain prosperity, through bolstering the drivers of economic prosperity and the places where those drivers concentrate. It is open to new policies and new ways of governing. It could be a model for other states grappling with similar challenges.

Through Greater Ohio/Brookings Institution partnership, the Restoring Prosperity to Ohio Initiative will develop a state-based reform agenda that builds from the expertise, knowledge and experience of a high level network of business, political and civic leaders from throughout the state.

Read about the Restoring Prosperity Agenda

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Greater Ohio News:

GREATER OHIO RELEASES ACTION ITEMS
TO ADDRESS OHIO’S FORECLOSURE CRISIS

New Report Presents 26 Recommendations for State Action.

View the Paper.

View the press release.

Choose our transportation legacy - take action today. 60 years ago we built the highways. What we build tomorrow will define us for the next 60. Now is the time to choose our legacy: demand accountability for our transportation dollars.

The Brookings Institution released a revised Akron Case Study. The paper explores the nature and history of Akron's industrial restructuring, and the steps and activities the city’s business, civic, and government leaders have undertaken to help spur its recovery and redevelopment. In doing so, it provides a series of lessons to other older industrial regions working to find their own economic niche in a changing global economy. View the full case study.

View Lavea Brachman's presentation on Balanced Growth given at the Water, Land and the Economy: Putting the Balanced Growth Initiative in Context Forum on March 25th.
Read Gene Kreb's Op-Ed recently sent to the media, Don't Bail Out ODOT

ReBuild Ohio, a Greater Ohio initiative and statewide coalition concerned with the vacant property problem released the study, "60 Million and Counting: The Cost of Vacant and Abandoned Properties in Eight Ohio Cities."

 

 

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