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Was That a Threat? (Tulsa Kids)

By Betty Casey The long-awaited, controversial A-F assessment of your child’s school will be released by the State Department of Education this week. After several miscalculations by the State Department and many postponements, the grades are ready to be released,… Read more [More...]

Watch This: The House We Live In

In 2010 in Oklahoma, just under half of the state’s residents of color owned their own homes, compared to three-quarters of the state’s white residents.  Home ownership is a key element of economic mobility and has has been key to… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk November 3, 2013

The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage.  Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know.  Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]

SNAP Down: Reduced food benefits set to hit one in six Oklahomans

This post was written by OK Policy intern Carly Putnam. Carly is an undergraduate at the University of Tulsa majoring in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies. She can be found on Twitter at @CarlyPutnam.  The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program,… Read more [More...]

Analysts split on shale gas future (Tulsa World)

By Susan Hylton  Domestic oil and gas production is discussed with great passion today among those who talk of an energy renaissance that is revolutionizing the industry and perhaps U.S. policy. They credit new hydraulic fracturing technologies in horizontal drilling… Read more [More...]

Economic Development: Where The Jobs Are (KGOU)

By Kurt Gwartney You can click through to the original article to hear the panel discussion moderated by Kate Richey on  Oklahoma’s economic development at our Summer Policy Institute. Links to other SPI panel discussions can be found here. A… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk October 20, 2013

The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage.  Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know.  Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Bar Association to present diversity awards to 6 law-related individuals and groups (The Republic)

The Associated Press The Oklahoma Bar Association plans to honor six individuals and organizations for promoting diversity in Oklahoma. Each will receive the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award during the annual Oklahoma Bar Association Diversity Conference on Oct. 24.… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Forum: Wages and the Income Gap (OETA)

OK Policy director David Blatt, with Jonathan Willner, Economics Department Chair at the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business, and Fred Morgan, President of the State Chamber of Oklahoma, discuss widening income inequality and its impact on Oklahoma. http://www.oeta.tv/video/3653.html… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk October 13, 2013

The Weekly Wonk is a summary of Oklahoma Policy Institute’s events, publications, blog posts, and coverage.  Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In The Know.  Click here to subscribe to In The Know.… Read more [More...]