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Graham Bowman

Graham Bowman

Graham Bowman is a Staff Attorney with the Ohio Poverty Law Center where he advocates on behalf of low-income Ohioans served by Ohio’s Legal Aid Community. His public policy work focuses on access to health care, housing, and youth issues. Prior to joining OPLC in 2017, Graham worked as an Equal Justice Works Fellow for homeless youth with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

COMMENTARY

State budget must provide adequate resources to fully implement new Medicaid managed care contract

By: - February 19, 2021

Ohio is on the brink of making historic changes to its Medicaid program. For the first time since 2012, the Department of Medicaid is renegotiating its contracts with private insurance companies that are tasked with administering most of the state’s health care program for low-income residents. If these changes are fully implemented then vulnerable Ohioans, […]

COMMENTARY

Ohio leaders must address poverty and homelessness for public health response to succeed

By: - September 2, 2020

Rent was due on Tuesday and many Ohioans will be unable to pay because of a slowly unfolding recession that, according to the World Bank, may be the worst since World War II. Congress appears less and less likely to extend assistance to unemployed families while Gov. Mike DeWine has yet to prop up Ohio’s […]