What is Ted Strickland Doing To Help Ohio Families?

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What is Ted Strickland Doing To Help Ohio Families?

The latest TV ads for Ted Strickland describe what Ted is doing to help business in Ohio. But what is Ted doing to help families in Ohio?

According to data from the latest Census Report, the percent of Ohioans without health insurance coverage increased and the median household income decreased significantly, the data show. More than 1.6 million Ohioans were without health care coverage last year, while the median household income dropped by 7 percent.

And last week, the Dayton Daily News reported the number of properties hit by a foreclosure filing of some kind in August jumped by more than 30 percent in Greene, Miami and Montgomery counties, according to a company that tracks real estate data.
In addition to the number of properties targeted by foreclosure filings — a category that includes default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — the number of homes taken back by the bank also increased in Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Warren counties during the month, according to RealtyTrac Inc.

Statewide, properties that received a foreclosure filing of some kind in August reached 13,479 versus 11,368 properties during the same month last year, an 18.6 percent jump, according to RealtyTrac.

At the same time, foreclosed homes repurchased by lenders grew 20 percent last month to 3,664.

What is Ted Strickland doing to help families? Especially those hit hard by poverty and foreclosures? Well, one thing he is doing for them is telling state agencies that help them to brace for 10 percent cutbacks in next year's budget?

Is this what we call leadership? I think not. We need an Ohio Governor who will take care of those families in poverty and facing foreclosures. We need a governor committed to helping those less fortunate, before he helps a Fortune 500 company.

Dennis S. Spisak-Green Party of Ohio nominee for Governor

www.votespisak.org/governor/

www.dennisspisak.com

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