ISSUES | PMK for Ohio

CONTRIBUTE

POLICY & PRIORITIES

Eliminate Corruption and Money in Politics

Americans overwhelmingly support reducing the role of money in politics, but real change requires strong public pressure and legislative action. At the State level, we can pass ethics and lobbying reforms, establish term limits, end gerrymandering, and other measures that put the power back in the hands of the people and hold elected officials and dark money donors accountable.

Economic Empowerment

Economic empowerment strengthens our communities, creates opportunities, and ensures financial stability for working families. The GOP has destroyed Ohio's economy, which is now ranked #43 in employment and #36 in growth. In addition, working families are crippled by the cost of childcare. By strengthening Unions, raising our minimum wage, investing in vocational training, capping childcare costs, and protecting small businesses, Ohio's economy can thrive once again.

End Wealth Inequality

The richest 1% of Ohioans earn nearly as much as the bottom half of the population combined. These disparities are glaring: CEO-to-worker pay ratios have skyrocketed, with executives earning over 350 times the average worker’s salary. We can address this in Ohio by fixing our tax code and closing the loopholes that allow the wealthy to pay less, and expanding the tax credits that support young families and first-time home buyers. We can increase taxes on "Super Owners". All of this will strengthen Ohio's ability to support the programs that lift more families and individuals out of poverty for good.

Fix the Housing Crisis

Rent has doubled while wages stayed flat — and families need a chance to catch their breath. Every Ohioan — in cities, rural areas and suburbs — deserves a shot at affordable housing.

Ohio underbuilt housing for over a decade, especially affordable units. After the 2008 housing crash, construction slowed dramatically and never fully recovered. Since 2020, institutional investors have bought thousands of Ohio rental properties, especially single-family homes in suburbs. These firms often hike rents aggressively and charge junk fees. Local landlords are now “competing” with Wall Street pricing models.

Ohio has the tools and the money to fix this crisis. What we need now is elected officials willing to act. Through reforms like statewide affordability initiatives, eviction reforms, and incentives for true affordable housing builds, while putting caps and accountability measures for large scale landlords and out-of-state property owners, we can add more units, ensure Ohio's homes are being purchased by Ohioans. By expanding programs that help Veterans and other groups such as seniors and first-time homebuyers, we can be a state where families can stay and put down roots.

Education for Every Ohioan

Education is the foundation for success and prosperity in a globalized world. Every child deserves access to high-quality education and training regardless of their background. Ohio’s public schools are facing significant challenges from the GOP, including funding threats, ideological shifts, and policy changes that will devastate public education in all communities, from rural to urban. We can address this by finally addressing fair school funding, instituting universal Pre-K, increasing incentives to keep teachers in Ohio, ending the Ed-Choice voucher program, and repealing SB1 to bring back freedom in educational discussion.

Healthcare is a Human Right

Ohio ranks #36 and #40 in Health Care Access and Public Health in 2025. Proposed Medicaid cuts, hospital closures and rising costs will continue to cause chaos to Ohioans. The GOP led changes will harm low-income families, seniors and rural communities. Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege. We must expand access in our state, especially for at-risk populations and folks like our Veterans who have served our nation and need additional support. We must expand access to mental health services and addiction treatment. We must include LGBTQ Ohioans and gender affirming care in our healthcare systems, and continue to protect every Ohioan's reproductive rights.

Infrastructure

We must focus on outcomes over process and bring in abundant energy, internet, and infrastructure to Ohio. By doing so, we will also bring new jobs and innovation to our state through moderinization of our power grid, investment in clean energy infrastructure, expansion of rural transit and internet access, and renewable energy.

Responding to the Climate Crisis

The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting ecosystems, economies, and human health. Here in Ohio, our plentiful parks, natural resources and waterways have been put at risk by decades of GOP greed.

Prioritizing legislation that both grows opportunity for Ohioans, and respects our natural world, will provide sustainable infranstructure and create long last jobs. Better regulation of induustrial polution and agricultural reforms will ensure that commercial farms continue to

Protecting Our Democracy

Across Ohio, voting rights are under mounting pressure from laws that disproportionately affect seniors, students, low-income voters, and communities of color. Recent legislation has imposed strict ID requirements and threatened to add burdensome proof-of-citizenship rules, even though voter fraud remains virtually nonexistent. Partisan gerrymandering has skewed representation and massive voter purges have quietly erased thousands from the rolls. These policies don’t just chip away at access; they erode confidence in the promise of a fair and inclusive democracy. Only politicians who are afraid of losing fight to keep voters from casting their ballots in an open and democratic process.

Instead, we should be expanding access to online voter registration, establishing an independent map-making commission, and making it easier to vote by establishing Election Day as a holiday and expanding mail-in voting.

Beyond elections, protecting our democracy also means reforming our judicial systems across the state. We have the opportunity to end cash bail in Ohio, enact sentencing reforms, and redetermine how juveniles are treated by the justice system.

We must also ensure, in the face of a federal government and Supreme Court who can not be trusted to protect us or our neighbors, that Ohio has strong anti-discrimination laws in place protecting LGBTQ Ohioans and common-sense gun laws protecting all of us from senseless violence.

POLICY & PRIORITIES

Eliminate Corruption & Money in Politics

End Wealth Inequality

Economic Empowerment

Fixing the Housing Crisis

Education for Every Ohioan

Healthcare is a Human Right

Build Our Infrastructure

Addressing the Climate Crisis

Protecting Our Democracy

Eliminate Corruption and Money in Politics

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Economic Empowerment

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End Wealth Inequality

Fix the Housing Crisis

Rent has doubled while wages stayed flat — and families need a chance to catch their breath. Every Ohioan — in cities, rural areas and suburbs — deserves a shot at affordable housing.

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Education for Every Ohioan

Healthcare is a Human Right

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Infrastructure

Responding to the Climate Crisis

​The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting ecosystems, economies, and human health. Here in Ohio, our plentiful parks, natural resources and waterways have been put at risk by decades of GOP greed.

Prioritizing legislation that both grows opportunity for Ohioans, and respects our natural world, will provide sustainable infranstructure and create long last jobs. Better regulation of induustrial polution and agricultural reforms will ensure that commercial farms continue to ​​

Protecting Our Democracy

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Instead, we should be expanding access to online voter registration, establishing an independent map-making commission, and making it easier to vote by establishing Election Day as a holiday and expanding mail-in voting.

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Beyond elections, protecting our democracy also means reforming our judicial systems across the state. We have the opportunity to end cash bail in Ohio, enact sentencing reforms, and redetermine how juveniles are treated by the justice system.

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We must also ensure, in the face of a federal government and Supreme Court who can not be trusted to protect us or our neighbors, that Ohio has strong anti-discrimination laws in place protecting LGBTQ Ohioans and common-sense gun laws protecting all of us from senseless violence.​​

The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting ecosystems, economies, and human health. Here in Ohio, our plentiful parks, natural resources and waterways have been put at risk by decades of GOP greed.

Prioritizing legislation that both grows opportunity for Ohioans, and respects our natural world, will provide sustainable infranstructure and create long last jobs. Better regulation of induustrial polution and agricultural reforms will ensure that commercial farms continue to

We must also ensure, in the face of a federal government and Supreme Court who can not be trusted to protect us or our neighbors, that Ohio has strong anti-discrimination laws in place protecting LGBTQ Ohioans and common-sense gun laws protecting all of us from senseless violence.