Thread by @PolicyMattersOH

Typical Ohio household income increased by $773 (1.6%) in 2018, from $55,236 to $56,111. The median Ohio household is making $460 less than when the last recession began and $2,000 less than in 2000, adjusted for inflation.
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The median black household in Ohio was paid $33,590, just over half of the typical white household, a difference of more than $27,466. The gap between black and white household income grew by $1,446, about 5.6%, since 2007.
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Latino household earnings increased by $3,283 to $44,813, the largest bump of any ethnic group. #CensusData

Ohio's poverty rate remained high at 13.9% ...19.5% for children, both statistically the same as in 2017.

There were 114,540 more Ohioans in poverty in 2018 than in 2007. #CensusData

Nearly 1 in 5 Ohio children, more than 1 in 4 black Ohioans (28.7%), and nearly one in four LatinoOhioans (23.8%) lived in poverty last year.
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Ohio was 1 of 8 states w/ an increase in the share of people w/o health insurance.

This was the second year in a row that Ohioans lost coverage.

The number of uninsured Ohioans rose to 744,000, up 58,000 from 2017.

The share of uninsured children in Ohio is now 5.5%.

“Job growth and a low unemployment rate are not enough. Ohioans need better workplace protections, more bargaining power and real on-ramps to the middle class.”

Check out all @HannahHalbert's analysis here: policymattersohio.org/press-room/201…