WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio announced last week that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program has awarded $8 million to the Ohio Department of Agriculture for conservation of the Western Lake Erie Basin. RCPP is also awarding $7.8 million to the Tri-State Western Lake Erie Basin Collaboration – a […]
CLEVELAND — When work has dignity, everyone can earn a secure retirement. Pensions are critical to the economic security of families who depend on these benefits to afford the rent or the mortgage, their prescription drugs and medical bills, and more. On April 15, the two of us joined U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan and Mayors […]
It’s simple: if you work extra hours, you should earn extra pay. Four and a half years ago in Columbus, I stood with then-Vice President Biden and the Secretary of Labor, and we announced that the administration was going to finally raise the salary threshold to earn overtime pay, making millions more workers eligible. The […]
We passed the American Rescue Plan to get shots in people’s arms, money in families’ pockets, children back in schools, and workers back on the job. And the plan is already making a difference in Ohioans’ lives. The best thing we can do to get shoppers back in stores and diners back in restaurants and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now that former President Donald Trump is out of office, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is using his chairmanship of the U.S. Senate committee that oversees the banking system to overturn regulations the Trump administration passed in its waning days that he views as anti-consumer. On Thursday, Brown joined a Democratic colleague on […]
The pandemic and a set of other economic and social forces changed the calculation for Democrats when it comes to government aid. The question now is how long the moment will last. WASHINGTON — A quarter-century ago, a Democratic president celebrated “the end of welfare as we know it,” challenging the poor to exercise “independence” […]
Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is strongly in favor of rolling back the Trump tax cuts for corporations — despite warnings from the business community that it could disrupt the economic recovery. “It was a giveaway to corporate interests and the richest people in the country,” Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told CNN […]
The far-right elite grows its movement best in the fertile soil of economic inequality. Out of the ashes of Jan. 6, a new president and new majorities in Congress have three historic charges — defeat the pandemic, build back our economy, and repair the damage done to our democratic way of life. Americans saw — in […]
More than a million workers and retirees across the country are part of the multi-employer pension system, and many are in danger of losing that secure retirement. For years, I’ve pushed leaders of both parties to fix this and save America’s pensions, and today we are closer than ever to a solution. If the system […]
