Ohio families with young children could get $1,000 tax credits if the state raises cigarette prices and lets smokers foot the bill. “This will be a significant amount of money,” Gov. Mike DeWine said when he released his budget proposal Monday.

Child advocacy group Groundwork Ohio praised the budget proposal’s “commitment to Ohio’s youngest children,” and pointed to recent polling that showed 84% of Ohio voters support a child tax credit, with majorities on all political sides supporting a measure like DeWine’s.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine proposed increased taxes on cigarettes and sports betting in his 2-year budget proposal.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s newly unveiled state budget plan would drastically raise taxes on sports gambling that could help fund a new Cleveland Browns stadium, pump more money into K-12 schools and offer more state help to parents with children,

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s two-year state budget proposal seeks to get more high school students to stay in Ohio for college through increased scholarship funding. But overall funding for the Ohio Department of Higher Education dips in the second year of his plan.

Gov. Mike DeWine has introduced his final two-year state budget, a $218 billion plan that funds state programs and agencies while proposing tax increases on certain items to support new