If Ohioans want a vibrant job market, we must start making tough choices to defang entrenched interests, notably labor unions and big government. The failure to act will only ensure that more Ohio businesses move to states where they can create jobs free of artificially expensive labor costs and inflexibility, and an overly burdensome government.

The Buckeye Institute's new report, "State of the State: Two Decades of Weak Job Growth and Skyrocketing Government Costs Pose Daunting Challenges to Ohioans" states that when the U.S. economy boomed in the 1990s, Ohio's job growth was just the 37th best in America. And when the economy went bust after the dotcom/technology crashes in 2000, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the housing/financial crash in 2008, Ohio lost more...