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Olivera Perkins

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Economics Reporter at Signal Cleveland

Economics reporter @signalcleveland Former longtime @ThePlainDealer reporter. 🎼 Soprano in my spare time.

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  • Cleveland Re-entry Month career fair at Tower City

    2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

    The Spring Into Workforce: Greater Cleveland Career Fair, where large and small employers are looking to fill openings, will be held April 17 as part of Reentry Month. While the job fair will focus on people who were formerly incarcerated, also known as  returning citizens or “justice-impacted” individuals, the event is open to all job seekers.

  • Federal judge restores DOGE funding cuts to Fair Housing Center

    3 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

    A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to restore grants to the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research in Cleveland that had been stopped midstream as part of DOGE cuts. The Fair Housing Center is one of four plaintiffs in national class action lawsuit asserting that HUD couldn’t abruptly cancel fair housing grants at the order of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

  • Unionizing Starbucks workers across U.S. meeting in Cleveland

    4 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

    Starbucks workers have been unionizing across the country since 2021. They’ve met on Zoom about strikes and communicated via social media about their demands for better pay and working conditions. This week will be the first time many of them meet face-to-face – and it will be here in Cleveland at the Workers United union’s convention at Rocket Arena.

  • Why is it taking years to close the wage gap?

    1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

    The takeaway on this Equal Pay Day is a sobering one: The wage gap between men and women has only closed by a few pennies over the last few decades. Women make 83 cents for every dollar men make, according to an analysis of  Census data by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Two decades ago, women earned 80 cents on the dollar,Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year women must work to catch up to what men made the previous year.

  • Child care costs more than public college for most Ohio families

    1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

    Ohio families can easily spend more on child care than they would sending a kid to college, according to an analysis of child care costs by a Washington, D.C. think tank. For Cuyahoga County families, child care can be the top monthly expense. More than housing, food, transportation or healthcare. Infant care averaged $17,071 a year in the state, according to the recent analysis of government data by the Economic Policy Institute.

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Olivera Perkins
Olivera Perkins @OPinfo
18 Apr 25

They’ll let you break a lot of stuff at Wrecks and Effects in #Cleveland, just don’t lift a cement block above your head and smash it on the floor. https://t.co/8r2fAaAumj

Olivera Perkins
Olivera Perkins @OPinfo
15 Apr 25

RT @CeliaHack: Exciting news — Today is my first day as a health reporter at @signalcleveland I will greatly miss @KMUW & Wichita. But…

Olivera Perkins
Olivera Perkins @OPinfo
9 Apr 25

Job fair next week at Tower City sponsored by @CityofCleveland @CuyahogaCounty @GCRTA and @BedrockDetroit https://t.co/KrMmK47aMP