The Buckeye Institute commented on the July 2026 jobs report from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, saying, “Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent, while its labor force participation rate fell to 61.4 percent, outpacing the national average. While the low unemployment rate is positive, in Ohio and across the nation, it is linked to declining labor force participation, with unemployed workers leaving the job market, thereby lowering the unemployment rate.”

The Buckeye Institute is one of six finalists for Atlas Network’s 2026 Templeton Freedom Award for its work on House Bill 15, Ohio’s best energy reform policy in a generation. Named for the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, the award honors his legacy by recognizing Atlas Network’s partner organizations for making innovative contributions to economic freedom and human progress. The Award will be presented in New York on November 12. 

The Buckeye Institute, joined by Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and tell Montgomery County Public Schools that discriminating against a group of students based on race to increase diversity is still discrimination and violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Pacific Legal Foundation represents the Association for Education Fairness.
 

The Buckeye Institute filed its second amicus brief in Craig v. Cromes, calling on the Ohio Supreme Court to foreclose Cuyahoga County’s home equity theft scheme. “When Moses Cleaveland laid out the plat map more than 200 years ago for the property where the plaintiffs in this case would live, he would have understood that the government cannot pocket the profits from the sale of property seized to settle a tax debt.” 

In Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute—as it did in The Cost of Aging—warns that Ohio must face its long-term care crisis, writing, “Ohio isn’t getting any younger. And the cost of caring for seniors doesn’t show signs of getting cheaper. But taking responsible steps to encourage cost-effective technologies and care options, expand the long-term care workforce, and reduce improper Medicaid payments will help our elderly receive the care and services they need and deserve—at a price that taxpayers can still afford.”

The Buckeye Institute proudly announced the triumphant return of its intrepid leader Robert Alt who journeyed to Russia and climbed the tallest mountain in Europe (Mt. Elbrus), fulfilling his longstanding goal of summiting the respective peak of each of the seven continents on Earth. “I set out eleven years ago to honor my late father and have now spread his ashes at the highest point on every continent.” 

In a public comment, The Buckeye Institute called on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to adopt its proposed rule eliminating the federal permission requirement for interstate transport of National Firearms Act firearms and to further clarify that personal, non-commercial transportation of short-barreled rifles does not require advance ATF authorization.

The Buckeye Institute joined New Civil Liberties Alliance and Americans for Prosperity Foundation in filing an amicus brief in U.S. Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to protect Americans from unconstitutional in-house government agency tribunals. “These in-house agency tribunals are a unique threat to civil liberties, acting as investigator, prosecutor, judge, and jury. Unsurprisingly, winning every time. This case offers the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to end the use of agency tribunals...” 

In National Review, Carrie Campbell Severino spotlights Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury—one of The Buckeye Institute’s two cases challenging the federal ban on home distilling. In the piece, Severio echoes Buckeye’s call to “grant cert and take the opportunity to overrule Raich,” writing, “The Court has not flinched from overruling other egregiously wrong precedents in recent terms. It should take this case and make clear that Raich is indefensible.”

The Buckeye Institute filed its amicus brief in Clemente Properties, Inc. v. Pierluisi-Urrutia, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and tell Puerto Rico it cannot profit off the likeness of baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente without the permission of his family, and that intellectual property—trademarks specifically—are protected as property under the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause.