A couple months ago, I was spending time at a friend’s family cabin in Hocking County. When we awoke in the morning, the ...

When we start a new project at Scioto Analysis, one of the first things we do with a client is agree on a scope: what questions the study will answer, which impacts will be measured, what methods will ...

Housing is one of the largest expenses in most household budgets, which means that changes in housing costs can have a significant impact on whether or not a household is able to make ends meet. This ...

On Wednesday, the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate approved a 90-day suspension of the state’s gas tax , ...

Earlier this month, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a newsletter that focused on the percentage of outpatient ...

As a policy analyst, I encounter a range of different types of policy studies. Different research questions demand different tools. For example, measuring the economic footprint of a cycling industry ...

Over the summer, I wrote a blog post discussing where Ohio’s data centers are headed. As of then, I calculated that there are currently about 143 planned or proposed data centers in Ohio. In some of ...

Adult literacy is important for voting, employment, social mobility, and public health. Populations that struggle the most with adult literacy rates are incarcerated individuals, people living in ...

If your organization works on issues, you probably have people who can explain why they matter. You have communications professionals, lobbyists, coalition partners, subject matters experts, direct ...

Public policy analysis is a professional service conducted by policy analysts at the federal, state, and local level. If someone is looking to engage with an independent public policy analysis firm, ...

In a survey released this morning by Scioto Analysis, 23 of 37 economists agreed that local property tax abatements are an effective tool for attracting new data center development in Ohio. As ...

Earlier this month, a group of Ohio House members largely representing urban areas of the state introduced a bill to prohibit property tax exemptions for data centers. Property tax exemptions are a ...