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Uphill Battle Ohio Job Seekers Face

Buckeyes Battle Uneven Playing Field; COVID-19 exacerbates trends; Women and Young Workers Hit Particularly Hard

By Kevin Williams

Graphics by Cid Standifer

This public service journalism article provided by nonprofit nonpartisan Eye on Ohio, the Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism.

Carmine Ballard graduated from The Ohio State University in 2016, with two Bachelor of Arts degrees— one in Psychology, another in Women’s and Gender Studies. Ballard’s parents helped them through college— paying their tuition. Yet, despite that, Ballard still ended up with about $10,000 worth of federal student loans by graduation, for living expenses during college.

Ballard graduated with a 3.0 average, and made the dean’s list several times. Ballard planned to get into counseling and spaces that served minorities and other at risk populations.

However, after more than twenty-five applications and interviews that didn’t go anywhere, Carmine, short on cash after three months of applying, ended up taking a food service job to make ends meet. The $114 a month for their student loan repayment was too much to handle with very little income, so Ballard’s parents continued to help out.

“When I tried to apply for jobs, I just wouldn’t hear back. I couldn’t even get a job doing clerical work,” said Ballard.

Facebook Awards Grant to Erie Chinese Journal

by Neighborhood Media Foundation

Late on Thursday, May 7, Facebook announced the Erie Chinese Journal was awarded a COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant from the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP) Community Network Grant Program.

The Chinese newspaper, which has its headquarters in Cleveland, is one of only 144 media outlets to be awarded a grant across the US from FJP, of which only four were located in Ohio.

CDC Reverses Course Again on Using Race As Testing Criteria

Minority Groups with Higher Case and Death Rates Deemed a Priority, Then Not

By Afi Scruggs

This public service journalism article provided by nonprofit nonpartisan Eye on Ohio, the Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism.

After changing the guidelines to test ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the CDC reversed course again Wednesday, saying that African Americans exposed to the virus could not get tested without symptoms.

Protest at Marion Correctional Institution Set for 3 pm, May 2nd, by EPIC

Please join EPIC- Ensuring Parole for Incarcerated Citizens-a non profit 501(c)(3) fighting for fair laws and treatment within Ohio’s Penal system, “Teezy” from St.Clair– an artist from the Cleveland area (formerly incarcerated behind the walls of MCI) and Councilman Basheer Jones– for A CRY FOR HELP protest at Marion Correctional Institution at 3 pm May 2nd.

NEOCH Launches Mutual Aid Fund to Support Rapid Responses to COVID-19 Crisis

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) launched a Mutual Aid Fund to provide support for grassroots, community-based responses to the COVID-19 crisis. NEOCH was inspired by Cleveland Pandemic Response (CPR), a group of local organizers and volunteers who launched a community hub, to directly match people in need with neighbors offering support. Knowing that large systems can be slow to respond, CPR uses a mutual aid model to link community members to free goods and services, and to volunteers who can run errands for people at high risk of infection.

Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund partnersannounce latest round of grantmaking

Community raises more than $7.6 million, grants approach $2.8 million in support of frontline nonprofit organizations in Greater Cleveland

CLEVELAND (April 17, 2020) – The Greater Cleveland COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund coalition announced today its fourth round of weekly grants to support the Greater Cleveland nonprofit community, which continues to face unprecedented challenges during the ongoing pandemic. In total, $492,713 was awarded to 12 organizations and groups serving Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga counties, bringing the overall grantmaking amount to nearly $2.8 million in the month since the Fund’s creation.

Eye on Ohio: UI system collapse

“It literally consumes everything I do”: Ohioans desperate to reach unemployment hotline as calls dropped, claims languish
-Jessica Zalants

By Cid Standifer [for Eye on Ohio]

Marcia Gassaway was in the first wave of Ohioans put out of work by COVID-19.

The single mom from Cleveland went to the emergency room on March 15. Due to her coronavirus-like symptoms, doctors ordered that she be quarantined at a special facility.

Now, she’s recovering at home with her children, calling the unemployment help line over and over again.

Statement by the Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild Local 1

Facebook Post, April 7, 2020

by The Plain Dealer News Guild

The Plain Dealer newsroom will no longer be covering Cleveland, Cuyahoga County or the state of Ohio.

Editor Tim Warsinskey announced Monday to the 14 remaining staff members that the newsroom would, with a few exceptions, become a bureau covering five outlying counties: Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and Portage.

The move would bar most of the reporters from covering stories in Cuyahoga and Summit counties, as well as statewide issues, where they have developed expertise and have institutional knowledge.

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless Finds Current Gaps in Cleveland COVID-19 Homelessness Response

NYT: The Federal Reserve announced an emergency lending program to keep credit flowing, saying it will buy up commercial paper, a type of short-term debt.

SMALL BUSINESS ALERT The Federal Reserve said it would try to keep credit flowing to households and businesses by buying up commercial paper, short-term promissory notes companies use to fund themselves. At the same time, the Trump administration is preparing to ask for about $850 billion in additional stimulus to…

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