Oklahoma Policy Insititute (OK Policy) advances equitable and fiscally responsible policies that expand opportunity for all Oklahomans through non-partisan research, analysis, and advocacy.
The state appropriated budget in relation to the size of the state’s economy has been in long-term decline and this decline has accelerated sharply in recent years. 2011 marks the lowest percentage of state appropriated spending as a share of… Read more [More...]
Contact: David Blatt, Director
Office: (918) 794-3944
dblatt@okpolicy.org
New Issue Brief Calls for Fixing Oklahoma’s Sales Tax;
Exemptions and Loopholes Are Distorting Economy, Starving Public Services
(Tulsa, February 22): Reform of Oklahoma’s sales tax is needed to support state and… Read more [More...]
The sales tax is the largest single source of state and local tax revenue but is increasingly falling short. An Oklahoma Policy Institute issue brief argues that sales tax reform is needed to ensure a fair, rational and stable tax… Read more [More...]
For resources specific to Oklahoma and the Affordable Care Act click here for Medicaid and here for the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Read the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act
Healthcare.gov
AARP
American Public Health Association
Center on Budget and… Read more [More...]
View a presentation delivered by David Blatt to a Forum on Children in Poverty hosted by St. Charles Borromeo Church in Oklahoma City, March 13, 2011.
Oklahoma Families and Children in PovertyClick here to download the presentation
Oklahoma Families and… Read more [More...]
by: RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
The five people profiled here may not be household names, but expect that to change. Their roles in government, public policy and community affairs will have wide-ranging impacts in the year ahead.
[To see… Read more [More...]
Original at http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A34476
BY MIKE EASTERLING, Urban Tulsa Weekly
David Blatt, the director of the Oklahoma Policy Institute, isn’t trying to convince anyone that the economic analyses his nonprofit, Tulsa-based think tank produces are always going to be spot on.… Read more [More...]
Original at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20101207_16_A12_OKLAHO370531&archive=yes
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma lawmakers will have $400 million less to spend in the coming fiscal year than they did in the current fiscal year, the director of the Oklahoma Policy… Read more [More...]
Original at http://newsok.com/report-okla.-economy-may-not-recover-until-2014/article/3521488
By SEAN MURPHY
Oklahoma’s economy, battered from the fallout of a national recession and low oil and natural gas prices, likely will not fully recover until at least 2014, according to a report released Tuesday by a… Read more [More...]
Our issue brief, “A New Fiscal Reality for Oklahoma: The State Budget Outlook, 2011-2014” presents revenue and budget forecasts for the next three years and a series of policy recommendations.
Full issue brief
1-page summary
Press release
Technical memorandum explaining… Read more [More...]
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