Suspending Ohioans’ drivers’ licenses over debts doesn’t just hurt those people.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland estimates more than 14% of the state's labor force could be at risk of leaving
A huge number of Ohioans — more than 1.7 million in the average year — have suspended drivers’ licenses. And 60% of those aren’t suspended due to bad driving; they’re suspended due to debts, the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland found inMany of the debts are due to fines and fees related to driving. But some of the debts are wholly unrelated to driving — deriving instead from child-support delinquencies or court judgments.
The researchers looked at data from the Ohio BMV, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau to get an idea of how many jobs were threatened by debt-related suspensions and where the affected workers were. But in doing so, they had to contend with some uncertainties. So they came up with a few scenarios. Under the more conservative one, they assumed that half of Ohioans with debt-related suspensions — about 830,000 — would comply with their suspensions and risk leaving a state labor force that in 2020 numbered 5.75 million.
When the researchers looked at the zip codes where the likely job losses would take place, the most severe were in urban areas. But they were also elevated in suburbs, exurbs, and across rural stretches of southern Ohio.
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