COVID-19 Recovery Funds

Cincinnati Public and Cleveland Municipal schools each received hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID relief funds over the past three years. Now, those funds are drying up.

Congress recently allocated more than $5 billion in COVID recovery funds to Ohio and more than $2.7 billion of it has been set aside for shoring up the state’s unemployment fund and for safety forces statewide. But advocates for Ohio’s lowest-income citizens say the state should be giving them assistance from the funds too.