Oklahoma Policy Insititute (OK Policy) advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all Oklahomans through non-partisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
An analysis of patterns of subprime lending and homeownership and foreclosures among people of color in Tulsa and Oklahoma City MSAs
Dr. Angela Gobar, Jackson State UniversityA research project of Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth
Since the housing… Read more [More...]
Fact Sheets
Don’t Pay for Tax Cuts on the Backs of Working Oklahoma Families [HTML Version]
Why It’s Critical to Save the Income Tax, and What You Can Do Today [HTML Version]
Why Saving the Income Tax is Critical for… Read more [More...]
This fact sheet and presentation were given to a town hall meeting in Oklahoma City on February 16th. The meeting featured several public health experts who spoke about urgent public health epidemics in Oklahoma, including our director David Blatt and,… Read more [More...]
OK Policy is pleased to partner with CFED to release the 2012 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, a comprehensive look at wealth, poverty, and the financial security of families. Read more... [More...]
A presentation by Dr. David Blatt, Director of Oklahoma Policy Institute and Steven Shepelwich, Senior Community Development Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Assets mean economic security. Yet impoverished families frequently lack the means to build assets. … Read more [More...]
Contact: David Blatt, (918) 794-3944, dblatt@okpolicy.org
A proposal by the legislature’s tax reform task force would raise taxes for 55 percent of Oklahomans, with the worst impact on low-income seniors and families with children, according to a new analysis from… Read more [More...]
A new fact sheet released today by the Oklahoma Policy Institute shows that the legislature’s tax reform task force proposal would raise taxes for 55 percent of Oklahomans. Low-income seniors and families with children would be especially harmed by the… Read more [More...]
Medicaid, known as SoonerCare in Oklahoma, is the primary health care safety net program in the state, without which thousands of families would forgo basic health services for their children, lack necessary medical care for their disables loved ones, and… Read more [More...]
Original at: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120104_16_A11_ULNSbw423597
By BARBARA HOBEROCK, Tulsa World Capitol Bureau
OKLAHOMA CITY – A coalition is forming to support adequate funding of public services in light of talks at the Capitol about cutting taxes used to fund government.
The Oklahoma… Read more [More...]
Original at: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120102_11_A1_Theinc511853
By CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer
Black, American Indian and Hispanic households all lost ground to white households in median incomes, Census figures show.
One observer said the trend is indicative of the poor economy hitting minorities… Read more [More...]
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OK Policy is pleased to partner with CFED to release the 2012 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, a comprehensive look at wealth, poverty, and the financial security of families. Read more... [More...]
Contact: David Blatt, (918) 794-3944, dblatt@okpolicy.org
A proposal by the legislature’s tax reform task force would raise taxes for 55 percent of Oklahomans, with the worst impact on low-income seniors and families with children, according to a new analysis from… Read more [More...]
