NEOCH Index #5

By Luke Drotar

  •  ·   Number of Ohioans who dropped into poverty last year (Policy Matters) : 213,000
  • ·   Percent change from 2006 to 2011 in the millions of pounds of food distributed by the Cleveland Foodbank : +77
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  • ·   Percent change in retaliation and intimidation claims in the congressional workforce from 2006 to 2010 : +50
  • ·   Number of people executed in Ohio since 1999 whose minute-by-minute activities until their last have been logged in-detail by prison employees (AP) : 46
  • ·   Rank of Ohio among all states in executions in 2010 : 2
  • ·   Number of people on death row in Ohio (ACLU) : 154
  •  ·   Rank of Ohio among states with the biggest drops in wages for workers in the last decade (Policy Matters) : 1
  •  ·   Percent of fifth-degree felony offenders who are diverted to probation instead of prison in Franklin County & Cuyahoga County, respectively (Justice Center): 82,660
  • ·   Percent higher pay that a Cleveland police officer will receive to appear in court for a felony case, officers aren’t required to appear for a misdemeanor case (Mona Lynch): 50
  • ·   Percent more likely that a white offender from suburban or out-of-town areas received a reduced misdemeanor charge as compared to an African-American Clevelander (John Kroll) : 77
  • ·   Percent of American adults who believe they can make a difference (Walden U-Harris Interactive) : 85
  •  ·  Number of new cases of veterans receiving compensation for mental disorders in 2006: 32,838
  • ·   Number of new cases of veterans receiving compensation for mental disorders in 2010 (VA) : 60,535.
  •  ·   Percent of students in grades 7-12 who experienced some form of sexual harassment in person or electronically (AAUW) : 48
  •  ·   Median net worth of households headed by someone 65 or older, $170,494
  • ·   Median net worth for households headed by someone under 35:; $3,662
  • ·   Ratio of wealth disparity between young-old in 1984: 10 to 1
  • ·   Ratio of wealth disparity between young-old in 2010:  47-to-1
  • ·   Amount of student loan debt added in the United States every six minutes (CBO): $1 million
  • ·   Amount of outstanding student loan debt by the end of 2011: $1 trillion
  • ·   Percentage of Greater Cleveland area households lost incomes since the start of the Great Recession began in 2007 (Census): 8
  • ·   Percentage of Ohioan area households lost incomes since 2000 (Census): 16
  • ·   Percent of the residents in Cuyahoga County who live below the poverty level (An increase of 3% in one year): 18
  • ·   Percent of extreme poverty increase over the last decade in the United States: 33%

Copyright Cleveland Street Chronicle and the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless December 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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