Child care programs take hits in Ohio Senate budget, even a Republican-supported one

The outrageous campaign-spending loopholes the Ohio Senate slipped into the budget: editorial

Officially, Ohio’s proposed 2025-27 budget, now under debate, makes “operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, ... to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.” That’s mostly malarkey. Ohio’s bloated budgets are routinely stuffed with special-interest riders that might never pass as stand-alone bills.

Child care programs take hits in Ohio Senate budget, even a Republican-supported one

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.The Ohio Senate-approved budget keeps eligibility for state-supported child care at levels that state leaders and advocates say is one of the worst in the country, and eliminates a cost-sharing model for child care that was supported by Republicans in both chambers.Eligibility for Publicly Funded Child …