"A state of need" The Columbus Dispatch

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Cartherine Candisky
The Columbus Dispatch
May 29, 2008

Amid the glut of negative economic statistics these days, this is perhaps the most stunning: More than 13 percent of Ohioans are now living in poverty, unable to afford adequate food, housing, clothes and other necessities.

That's the largest portion of the state's population considered poor under federal guidelines since 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty," thrusting the issue into the national spotlight.

Yesterday, Gov. Ted Strickland decided it was time to do something about it; he announced the creation of a state task force to combat poverty, hoping to renew attention to the plight of Ohio's poor...