Leila Goldstein
Economics and Business Reporter / HostLeila Goldstein is a reporter for WYSO. Before coming to WYSO she interned with Marketplace where her reporting focused on business and technology, from financial tech tools for domestic workers to the hidden world of online returns. She has also interned with New Hampshire Public Radio, and has produced pieces for NPR, Wyoming Public Media, Wondery, and the Coney Island History Project.
Prior to her work in radio she taught ESOL in New York City and Banda Aceh, Indonesia. She’s a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Oberlin College. Leila grew up in Northern Virginia and has family roots in Dayton.
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The West Dayton nonprofit Early Visions is working to preserve the building that once housed the first African American YWCA in the country. -
Dayton is one of only 20 YWCA locations to offer the Women Empowerment 360 program.
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Families can now get monthly payments of the increased child tax credit in advance, before filing a tax return.
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The city is seeking input on how to spend $138 million in federal aid through the American Rescue Plan Act. Five more meetings are scheduled this month.
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An Ohio-based developer has agreed to buy the property and expects to repurpose it as a business park.
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The program will serve residents who live within a mile of the Kroger’s Centerville store.
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Despite a push to prioritize human trafficking in Ohio, labor trafficking continues to get less attention from media and law enforcement than sex trafficking.
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Part of Ohio’s approach to combatting human trafficking is arresting people for selling sex. But some experts argue that arrests make people more vulnerable to being trafficked.
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Anti-human trafficking nonprofits and government agencies, including those in Ohio, have a problem with sharing misinformation.
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Ohio leaders have made human trafficking a priority. But what do we really know about how trafficking happens in the state? In the first part of WYSO’s series Trafficked, hear the story of one survivor and the challenges she is still up against.
