If your organization works on issues, you probably have people who can explain why they matter. You have communications ...

Last week, I went to a webinar hosted by the National Coalition for Literacy and the Learning Impact Network about adult ...

Public policy analysis is a professional service conducted by policy analysts at the federal, state, and local level. If ...

From this table, you can get an idea of which states rely the most on federal funding. For instance, let’s consider Alaska. Between national parks, conservation land, and military bases, 60% of Alaska ...

We live in a post-welfare reform world. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich worked together to reform welfare in the United States. A large part of the bargain struck ...

Back in 2019, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post looking at areas of high poverty in Columbus. This blog post still resonates with a lot of people who understand the history and context of Columbus, ...

Unsurprisingly, the states that would need the most money to end poverty are the states with the largest populations. There is a huge dropoff between Florida and Ohio both in terms of the amount of ...

On Wednesday, I went to a luncheon hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Club on the topic of homelessness. The host posed a question to one of the panelists: what would it cost to end homelessness in ...

Data centers have been one of the biggest news stories of the past year. Last month, my colleague Rob wrote about this trend: everyone is talking about data centers. For community members, worries ...

When an analyst approaches a problem and are trying to take an efficiency lens to it, she has two main options at her fingertips: cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. Understanding ...

This morning, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis about the impacts of building wildlife crossings in areas with high amounts of wildlife-vehicle collisions. Using conservative estimates ...