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When the housing bubble burst, it left a trail of dilapidated homes in Ohio’s cities and rural communities. A decade later, that gave birth to a new problem for those communities: lease-to-own deals that promised a piece of the American dream but often turned out to be nightmares.

This article was updated on January 14, 2020.For a century, the Mahoning Valley has ebbed and flowed with the fortunes of traditional manufacturing. Now,…

M.L. Schultze digs deeply into stories which help us to give you a better understanding of serious social issues and the greater impacts they have.

Over the last seven years, Ohio’s been slowly changing a set of laws that many believe keeps people from getting jobs, paying child support, even…