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Total state expenditures per capita in Oklahoma in state fiscal year 2014
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
Hospital emergency room visits per 1,000 people in Oklahoma in 2014, slightly above the national average of 428 and 19th overall.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation.
Number of Oklahoma children confirmed to have dangerously high blood lead levels in 2014.
Source: Centers for Disease Control
Annual salary before taxes needed as a living wage for a single parent household in Oklahoma.
Source: MIT.
Percent increase in Oklahoma home prices since April 2006, when the national market peaked. Nationwide home prices have fallen 12.8% since that year.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Percentage of Oklahoma workers who have access to a workplace retirement plan (29th out of all 50 states).
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts.
Percentage of Oklahomans who lived in metropolitan areas in 2013
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation.
Percentage of Oklahoma veterans who are female.
Source: Census Bureau
Percent change in Oklahoma’s teen birth rate, 2011-2014, from 47.8 to 38.5 births per 1,000 women age 15-19.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
