{"id":15493,"date":"2025-03-20T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:51:28","slug":"rep-grim-says-real-state-of-the-state-is-ohioans-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/rep-grim-says-real-state-of-the-state-is-ohioans-deserve-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Grim Says Real State of the State is Ohioans Deserve Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9927\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Michele Grim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) last week responded to Governor DeWine&#8217;s State of the State address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ohioans deserve a budget that puts people first-one that lowers costs, strengthens public schools, and ensures families can thrive. While the governor&#8217;s budget includes positive steps like a child tax credit and expanded childcare, it neglected to address the high prices and rising property taxes that are squeezing families &#8211; and ignored the looming threat of severe cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, Head Start, and Pell Grants being pushed by his party in Washington. Ohio House Democrats are fighting for a budget that prioritizes working families, seniors, and students over tax breaks for the wealthy because Ohioans deserve better,&#8221; said Rep. Grim.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats are committed to making sure people deserve better: better pay, better healthcare, fairer taxes, safer communities, real opportunities, and a future where no one is held back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) last week responded to Governor DeWine&#8217;s State of the State address. &#8220;Ohioans deserve a budget that puts people first-one that lowers costs, strengthens public schools, and ensures families can thrive. While the governor&#8217;s budget includes positive steps like a child tax credit and expanded childcare, it neglected to address the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[285],"class_list":["post-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15494,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}