The Ohio Poverty Law Center is praising a bill in the lame-duck session of the Ohio General Assembly that is intended to reduce the huge number of Ohioans whose driver’s licenses are suspended because of unpaid debts or drug offenses. The bill awaits Governor Mike DeWine’s signature. the agency says in a state so poor that a fourth of Ohioans are on Medicaid, 1 million have suspended licenses because of debts ranging from things such as a lack of insurance, unpaid fines, and court costs. The suspensions are concentrated most heavily in impoverished urban communities of color, bad news for poor people trying to get work and businesses in need of employees and risks disenfranchising thousands under Ohio’s strict voter ID law.