Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
Concretely, those counties and regions that are not expected to experience long-term population growth should not be taking on any new long-term infrastructure costs in the form of new roads or new utilities. We should not encumber future ratepayers with the costs of maintaining and repairing additional infrastructure.
Between 2000 to 2020, incomes grew at varying rates for US cities, metropolitan areas, and states. Ohio is no different, with most of its municipalities seeing increases in household incomes. While many Ohioans had higher incomes in 2020 than in 2000, these income gains were not spread evenly across the state and the speed at which incomes increased was not always consistent between municipalities across the observed time frame.
Back in March, we wrote about how the 2020 Census would be one of the most critical decennial counts in a generation, not just because of the apportionment of congressional representation, but also in determining how to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding that flows into states and communities each year.
For months now, communities around the state have been gearing-up as the 2020 United States Census gets underway. Conducted every 10 years and required by both the U.S. Constitution and federal law, the Census has long-range implications, for everything from the number of Representatives Ohio will have in the United States Congress, to helping determine how billions of dollars in federal funding flow into states and communities each year.
