Thread by @PolicyMattersOH

✊🧵🚨SOLIDARITY THREAD ALERT🚨🧵✊Employers that pay low-wages have left too many Ohioans without enough financial cushion to survive a period of unemployment. We need policymakers to step up and prove we’re really #AllInThisTogether.
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In honor of #InternationalWorkersDay & #MayDay -- and because Ohio's working people need action *now* -- we released our report on four essential policies to sustain Ohio workers. You can read it in full here:

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1⃣: Policymakers must protect workers on the job with safety protocols and gear, careful reopening of businesses that follows health officials’ guidance, and oversight.
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2⃣: Policymakers must restore the minimum wage to a level that covers the cost of living.
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3⃣: Policymakers must quickly deliver unemployment benefits to working people displaced by the pandemic--and they must make permanent the currently-expanded eligibility for people with low incomes and gig workers.
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4⃣: Policymakers must ensure all working Ohioans have access to emergency paid sick leave now, and earned sick leave going forward.
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Lawmakers can use smart, compassionate policy to help Ohioans get through & beyond the #COVID crisis. The solution exists--now we need leaders to make it happen.
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