When we start a new project at Scioto Analysis, one of the first things we do with a client is agree on a scope: what questions the study will answer, which impacts will be measured, what methods will ...

On Wednesday, the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate approved a 90-day suspension of the state’s gas tax , ...

Earlier this month, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a newsletter that focused on the percentage of outpatient ...

As a policy analyst, I encounter a range of different types of policy studies. Different research questions demand different tools. For example, measuring the economic footprint of a cycling industry ...

Last week, I went to a webinar hosted by the National Coalition for Literacy and the Learning Impact Network about adult ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One textbook on cost-benefit analysis says that discounting is not controversial in cost-benefit analysis, but that the rate at which we should discount is. While there are still some fringe voices ...

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 ...

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 ...