Gov. Dewine discusses COVID-19 impact, response in Ohio

Gov. Dewine discusses COVID-19 impact, response in Ohio

Impact of covid-19.

It looked pretty good people are doing what they need to do to distance and protect themselvesits a positive sign for ohio governor mike dewine...the numbers he's looked at indicating the covid 19 pandemic may be slowing down...as more businesses open up.best sanitation best distancing these are the things that are important as we open our economyohio was one of the first states in the country to close down schools and businesses...and now are like many others opening back up.this week dewine says more than 90 percent of businesses will be back up and running... we want to do it we have to do it safelybut the state like many others are still feeling the pandemic's affect.dewine says local and state governments will have less money to work with... which will lead to budget cuts.at the state level... it could have a big impact on education.

760 mill of cuts unfortunately some of that had to come from our schoolhe's hoping for more federal money to help fix that problem....we need more flexibility cares dollars so we can move some of that to educationfor northwest ohio..

He says farmers could be getting some more help soon.he says the past two years has been extremely difficult for them...and says there are ways for farmers right now to get some additional funds...like the h-2- ohio program.our attempt to help farmers pay farmers in exchange of stoppign runoff coming to lake erieits all an attempt to get the state back where it needs to be... but he says it wont come at the cost of peoples lives.its not a question of does the economy coming back economy vs health those things are so intertwined together if you enjoy