Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, hasn’t forgotten the Great Recession. In the first half of 2007, Brown recalls, there were more foreclosures in his hometown than anywhere else in the country. It was a period that led to the Global Financial Crisis: Millions of Americans lost their homes, while banks and other corporate sectors were rescued […]
“Bank CEOs blistered by Sen. Sherrod Brown to do more for public” – Bloomberg Last week for the first time ever, the Senate Banking and Housing Committee held a hearing with the CEOs from the six largest banks in our country. I asked JP Morgan’s CEO why he makes 900 times more than his company’s lowest paid worker. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown on Wednesday accused the chief executives of the nation’s six largest banks of profiting at the expense of everyday workers, noting the CEO-to-median worker pay ratio is now 320-1. “Profits have gone up, stock prices have soared, your own compensation is stratospheric – but workers get a smaller […]
For far too long, our trade policy has allowed our steelworkers and other Ohio industries to drown under unfair foreign competition. Too often, we see trade remedy orders put in place on imports from one country, only to see the U.S. market flooded with dumped or subsidized imports of that same product from a different […]
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the 1819 Innovation Hub in Cincinnati Friday afternoon for a roundtable discussion. She was joined by Sen. Sherrod Brown and public transportation leaders. The roundtable discussion was centered around infrastructure and public transportation. “I think about good transit equals vibrant communities,” Harris said. “So if we think about it […]
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 […]
