Standard&Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'A+' rating to Cleveland, Ohio's series 2016 water pollution control (WPC) revenue bonds. The outlook is stable. The primary factors for the revenue bond rating are the following: An adequate enterprise risk profile, which is generally supported by a broad and diverse economic base and a strong operational management assessment, in our view. Upward mobility in the enterprise risk profile is currently limited by underlying economic indicators for both Cuyahoga County and the city of Cleveland that we view as weak for the rating level. Notably, the county's GDP growth rate is currently more than 1% lower than the national rate, Cuyahoga County's poverty rate hovers around 20%, and Cleveland's median household effective
