Nick Claussen
09/22/2011 - 12:54pm
The Ohio Department of Insurance recently released a report detailing the expected effects of “Obamacare” on the state, but Athens County job and health officials are uncertain how the...
09/12/2011 - 6:14pm
Earlier today, the Athens County United Appeal expanded their 2-1-1 phone service, which provides information on local welfare services to a new intuitive website.
The site, 211athenscounty.org,...
04/10/2013 - 1:21am
With a poverty rate more than two times the average for the state of Ohio, Athens is infamous for being one of the poorest regions in the state.
Yet if Ohio University students were counted...
03/20/2013 - 3:46pm
Two telephone scams are targeting Ohio’s poor.
The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services released a statement Tuesday warning Ohioans of two separate scams that offer...
03/01/2013 - 4:33am
Though fracking continues to divide Ohioans in regard to environmental health and safety, the shale gas industry has brought jobs to the state, some of which are likely to have gone to Athens...
02/22/2013 - 6:43am
Athens County is associated as an outlier when it comes to the poverty rate, yet many would have no idea considering its high rate of government jobs.
Athens County’s percentage of...
02/14/2013 - 4:30am
Earlier this month, Gov. John Kasich introduced his Jobs Budget 2.0 –– a move that has divided the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.
The proposed budget has been...
01/28/2013 - 4:52am
The unemployment rate of Athens tends to be significantly lower than in surrounding counties solely because of the presence of a large, public university.
The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family...
01/17/2013 - 4:47am
Many Ohio workers appreciate the new minimum wage increase of 2013, which is expected to make a difference in both Ohio’s and Athens’ economies.
On Jan. 1, minimum wage in Ohio jumped...
01/16/2013 - 1:24am
People living in Appalachian counties in Ohio are more likely to have dental problems than people in the rest of the state, and some local officials say access to care is the cause.
“Being...
