If you are a nonprofit executive, you are certainly familiar with the idea of a “strategic plan.” A group of board members get together, sometimes for a day or a weekend, to chart out a plan for the ...

In my last blog , I discussed how one of the challenges with policy analysis is that it relies on data and effect estimates from other research. This means policy analysts need to be capable of ...

A couple of weeks ago, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis of data center policies in Ohio. We found that data ...

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 ...

For one reason or another, I have been writing and thinking a lot about population growth lately. An important contributor to population growth in Ohio over the past ten years has been international ...

The top of the list is not a state at all, but the District of Columbia, where about one in five workers are employed by the federal government. This makes sense because DC is the nation’s capital and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a survey released this morning by Scioto Analysis, 11 of 19 economists indicated that a three-month gas tax suspension would not provide meaningful financial relief to Ohio residents. Since January ...