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. 

• Budget Trends and Highlights (July 2010): Two pages of concise policy points and charts, updated monthly

• FY '11 Budget Highlights, includes major policy points and graphs & tables:
  • State appropriations history, FY '00 - FY '11
  • Revenue collections, FY '06-FY'11
  • FY '11 appropropriations by revenue source
  • Allocation of federal stimulus dollar, FY '10 & FY '11
  • Appropriations by agency, FY '09 - FY '10

• Our Budget Overview presentation provides a full look at the scope and impact of the current budget crisis, updated to reflect the FY '11 budget approved during the 2010 legislative session. You can download the presentation as a PDF or view the presentation here.   Oklahoma Budget Overview: Trends and Outlook, July 2010  

• Click here for the June Board of Equalization certification that includes revenue enhancements approved by the Legislature;
• We've been tracking articles from Oklahoma newspapes over the past year on proposed and enacted cuts to state agencies, local government, and school districts. Link here to our spreadsheet (as of June 10). 
• We make the case for a balanced approach to the budget crisis including new revenue sourcesin this 8-page issue brief, 1-page summary, and op-ed (April 2010);      
• In a brief titled "Learning from the Crisis", we provide a set of proposals for changes to the state's budget and tax system that would help manage this budget crisis and future downturns. Read the full issue brief or the 1-page summary.(Jan 2010)
• OK Policy's November forecasting issue brief (click here to download the full brief or here for the one-page fact sheet) assesses the depth and length of the current economic downturn in Oklahoma and offers ideas for coping with it and improving our fiscal capacity for the future. Click here for the technical memorandum explaining our forecasting methodology. Click here for the Oklahoman's editorial citing  our report.
• OK Policy's full FY '10 Budget Review and 4-page fact sheet provides an in-depth analysis of the budget adopted by the 2009 Legislature.