This Budget Information page and the OK Policy blog provide you the key resources you need to make sense of where things stand with the state budget, follow emerging developments, and explore ideas for managing the state fiscal crisis. You can find our information and materials on tax policy here.

• Budget Trends and Highlights (April 2012): Two pages of concise policy points and charts, newly updated
• An Incomplete Recovery: The State Budget Outlook, 2012-2015 (November 2011): Our forecast and recommendations for the coming years (issue brief, fact sheet, technical memorandum, news coverage)
• Visualizing Where the Money Goes (July 2011): Blog post with interactive charts to show trends in how appropriations money has been divied up between state agencies since FY '00. You can see all of our interactive charts and datasets on Many Eyes here.
• We've been tracking articles from Oklahoma newspapes on proposed and enacted cuts to state agencies, local government, and school districts. Link here to our spreadsheet (as of July 2011).
• FY '12 Budget Highlights (May 2011) - includes major policy points and 8 graphs & tables:
  • Total state appropriations history, FY '00 - FY '12
  • Revenue collections, FY '06-FY'12
  • FY '12 appropriations by revenue source
  • Allocation of federal stimulus dollars
  • Appropriations for every agency, FY '09 - FY '12

Oklahoma Fiscal Outlook - March 2012Op-Ed: FY '12 Budget Agreement: Playing your best hand with only half your cards (May 2011)

• Protecting Core Services: Revenue options for a balanced budget (April 2011): Issue brief and summary
• Fixing the Sales Tax - Options for Reform (Issue brief, Feb 2011)
• OK Policy's Memo to Candidates on the state budget outlook and policy recommendations (Oct 2010)
• Our Online Budget Guide provides comprehensive information and analysis on the state's budget and tax systems.
• 10 Things You Should Know about Oklahoma's Budget and Taxes (1-page fact sheet, June 2011)