What Should Northeast Ohio’s Economic Recovery Look Like? Share Your Input
Northeast Ohio’s economy has suffered setback after setback in recent decades. There was the loss of major industrial players which led to the American rust belt decline. Then there was the 2008-2009 recession. And finally, the pandemic.
While other parts of the country suffered from these events, places like Cleveland and Akron have had a harder time rebounding, said Emily Campbell, associate director for the Center for Community Solutions in Cleveland.
“The other parts of the country recover much faster and much more completely than Northeast Ohio does,” Campbell said. “Our communities, and especially the city of Cleveland, continue to have higher rates of poverty and higher unemployment than the rest of the country.”
That’s why the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative (NEO SoJo) will soon embark on a year-long reporting project on the region’s economic recovery from the pandemic.
What works? What doesn’t?
We want to highlight the unique problems this region faces as it tries to build a better economic future for all, not just for a privileged few. And we want to play a part in that story too, by engaging with the community; by highlighting tales of success; and by finding what’s working elsewhere, to see what solutions in other cities might also work here.
To start off our new year of coverage on the right foot, we’re embarking on a listening tour. You can help by taking our short survey assessing your community’s needs. Or, you can meet us at one of our upcoming events. The first is a Common Ground discussion with the Cleveland Documenters on the new child tax credit and how it could help Cleveland families, set for Thursday, July 29 at 7 p.m. at University Settlement ’s Mead House in Slavic Village (4909 Mead Avenue, Cleveland, 44127).
We’d also like to meet people where they are, so, if you have an event coming up where we could discuss the topic of economic recovery, we’d love to hear from you! Please email NEO SoJo Project Coordinator Sharon Broussard.
NEO SoJo is a group of 18 news outlets in Cleveland, Akron and Kent working together to cover our region from the lens of solutions journalism. We spent the last year covering our communities’ response to COVID-19’s major impact on marginalized people, whether that be how Cleveland pivoted its strategy to house unsheltered people; how local churches leveraged their trust with the community to get people vaccinated; or exploring the gaps in aid people received for things like rent and utility bills.
Unrest to affect economic recovery in S. Africa: FM - Xinhua
Source: Xinhua| 2021-07-29 00:45:20|Editor: huaxia
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JOHANNESBURG, July 28 (Xinhua) – The recent unrest which resulted in the destruction of property and looting of shopping centres would affect South Africa’s economic recovery, said the Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday at a virtual media briefing.
Mboweni said the unrest would impact future gross domestic product (GDP), business confidence and reduce private investment.
“This will constrain economic recovery at a time when business confidence is already weak and at levels last seen in the fourth quarter of 2014,” he said.
Mboweni said that damage to property will cost Sasria between R15 billion to R20 billion (1-1.35 billion USD) in claims.
Sasria is a state-owned company and the only short-term insurer that provides cover to all the people and businesses that have assets in South Africa, as well as government entities, against special risks such as civil commotion, public disorder, strikes, riots and terrorism.
“There is widespread damage to shops and malls, network towers, post offices, factories, roads and freight trains. Hundreds of ATMs have been destroyed, making access to cash harder,” he said.
Mboweni said the National Treasury was projecting that the country’s economy would only return to pre-pandemic levels in the fourth quarter of 2023. Enditem
Delta variant threatens to undermine economic recovery
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