Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
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.
The Dispatch recognized GOPC for working to rebuild and rejuvenate Ohio’s “legacy cities” that have been hit hard by societal changes. “Cities like Sandusky and Marion and Hamilton don’t carry as great a burden as Portsmouth’s, but they too have struggled with the loss of manufacturing jobs and population. That makes the progress shown in the Greater Ohio Policy Center’s updated report especially encouraging.”
