Unemployment compensation has served as a lifeline for many who were out of work or lost jobs. We’ll look at the impact unemployment benefits have had on the economy and with so many jobs available will we see open positions being filled?

Eunice Hunton Carter, a Black attorney, established the critical link that secured a conviction against mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1936.. We talk with the co-author of a new book that chronicles Carter’s life and legal career.

At a recent hearing on an anti-vaccination bill before the Ohio House Health Committee, a priest denied the papacy of Pope Francis. We look at this and other rifts within American Catholicism under Francis and what such divisions mean for society writ large.

The more contagious delta variant of COVID is working its way through the population, and some state lawmakers last week heard hours of testimony on a bill that would outlaw all vaccine mandates in Ohio. On our Weekly Reporter Roundtable, we take a look at the latest on House Bill 248 and the proposed ban on vaccine mandates.

Fall is coming, and that means football, a new season for arts in Columbus, and the Best Damn Band in the Land. We talk to the band's director as well as the executive directors of the King Arts Complex and Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus.

The largest increase in 46 years is coming to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as Food Stamps. We’ll learn how the food stamp program has changed and continues to serve as a safety net for individuals and families.

Columbus is on a list of cities that could become home to Afghans fleeing their country in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal. We talk about the challenges ahead and the lessons learned from previous refugee resettlement efforts in central Ohio.

This week on Wellness Wednesday, we round up the latest COVID vaccine news, look at individual dietary choices that can add time to your life and cases of lung cancer in nonsmokers.

Ohio settled a lawsuit against the Medicaid managed care organization, Buckeye Health Plan for more than $88 million for defrauding taxpayers, but the company is a new pact. We look at managed care organizations and how they fit into the future of Medicaid in Ohio.

The United States is now more multinational, racially and ethnically diverse than ever. See how governments, from the federal level to the local level, use the numbers to plan for the future.