Newsletters

This week, former Ohio Governor Bob Taft and I joined forces to encourage all Ohioans to vote in this upcoming election. We both served as Ohio’s Secretary of State, the chief elections officer in Ohio, and know how crucial it is that all Ohioans make their voices heard at the ballot box.Bob and I are of opposite parties, and we don’t agree on... Read More

Ohioans' health care is once again under attack from Washington Republicans who are attempting to use the courts to get around the will of the voters, and overturn the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA). In a matter of weeks, the Supreme Court will hear the case pushed by President Trump that would do what the American people rejected over and... Read More

For decades, companies have used temporary workers, subcontractors, and independent contractors as a way to pay people less for the same work, skirt labor laws, and wash their hands of any responsibility for the workers who make their businesses successful. Corporations will subcontract their food service work or their housekeeping to a company... Read More

More than 50 years ago, we passed the Fair Housing Act, and a series of other fair housing and fair lending laws, to outlaw discrimination, promote integrated communities, and provide powerful tools to root out discrimination and invest in communities of color. But parts of the Fair Housing Act were never fully implemented, and we’re still... Read More

Beginning this Saturday and stretching over two weekends, our office will hold our first Black Women’s Health Symposium. The free conference will take place virtually on Saturday, September 26th and Saturday, October 3rd, and will include panel discussions, workshops and speakers addressing physical, community, mental and economic health.We began... Read More

The school year is underway across our state, and over and over I hear the same thing from parents, students, teachers, and community leaders: people feel like they’ve been abandoned. And they’re right. Senate Leader McConnell and President Trump have left parents, students, and teachers to fend for themselves in the middle of a national crisis.... Read More

This week, as we are supposed to be honoring Labor Day and supporting the people who make this country work, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has rolled out his latest plan, and just like the last one, it actually cuts Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. This time it cuts benefits by $300 every week, while giving legal immunity to corporations that... Read More

The U.S. Postal Service is an essential institution in our country. It’s not a partisan institution – in fact, it brings us together. The post office serves everyone: rural and urban, seniors, veterans, and small businesses.Ohioans depend on the Postal Service to get their paychecks and their packages and their prescription drugs. The U.S.... Read More

With the new school year set to begin for many Ohio students, we need to ensure that our communities have the support and resources they need for our kids to learn safely and effectively. Educators, parents, school board members, and community leaders across Ohio have been working hard to keep our students from falling behind. But we know there are... Read More

COVID-19 infection rates are once again rising in Ohio and around the country, yet too many of our frontline workers – including health care providers – still do not have the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need, and we still do not have enough tests. Supply chains are critical in a crisis like this one, and our ability to produce the... Read More

Cities and counties around Ohio have led the country in declaring racism a public health crisis. The first step to solving a problem is recognizing its existence. That’s why I joined my colleagues Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker to continue the effort at the federal level. We introduced a Senate resolution last week that declares racism a... Read More

This summer for the eighth year in a row, my office has partnered with local companies and organizations to host manufacturing camps for 4th through 8th graders across Ohio.Obviously, this year is going to look different. When it became clear that this pandemic would be with us through the summer, our office went to work, reaching out to organizers... Read More

Right now, families and young people are dealing with unprecedented financial stress, social isolation, and abrupt changes to daily life. Child welfare agencies are worried about devastating cuts to their already limited funding, as Ohio and states all over the country face severe budget shortfalls, and Leader McConnell and President Trump refuse... Read More

This pandemic has been the Great Revealer. It’s exposing so many inequities in our society, and it’s affecting nearly every aspect of our lives. One issue that I’m hearing a lot about from Ohioans is how many still don’t have access to reliable, affordable broadband internet. It’s either not available where they live,... Read More

The 2020 census is underway and our efforts to count every single Ohioan will not stop because of the pandemic. Ohioans can respond to the census safely online, by mail or by phone. The census determines how billions of dollars in federal funds will be distributed. Federal, state, and local programs all use census data for health care services,... Read More

Each year in June, we celebrate our friends, family, and neighbors who make up Ohio’s LGBTQ community, and recommit ourselves to fighting for a more just and inclusive society. That’s why, for the fourth year in a row, I’ve led my Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing a resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. I... Read More

People all around our state and our country are calling for meaningful change in our justice system. This reform starts with holding police accountable: No more chokeholds. No more unchecked police misconduct. No more immunity from prosecution. That’s why I joined my Senate colleagues in introducing the Justice in Policing Act, a... Read More

The peaceful protests around our state and throughout our country are an expression of fear, grief, frustration, and anger. Black communities led the nation in mourning the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor over the last week – and they are now leading calls for justice and long-term changes to dismantle the racist systems that hold... Read More

Before this crisis, a quarter of renters spent more than half of their incomes on housing, often putting them one emergency away from impossible choices, and even eviction. Now millions of Ohioans are having those emergencies – they’ve lost their job, or they’ve had their hours cut. Ohioans are facing impossible choices right now... Read More

It’s clear what a toll this pandemic is taking on Ohioans’ paychecks and family budgets. Even as we work to get our economy moving again as soon as it’s safe to do so, we know it is going to take a sustained response over many months to get everyone back on their feet. The fastest and simplest way to help Ohio workers and families... Read More