By:
Carly Putnam
October 17, 2013 // Updated: November 8, 2013
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.…
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Carly Putnam
October 13, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
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…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 3, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
By Maeve Reston
The nation’s healthcare law was written with the residents of rural counties like Choctaw in mind. A quarter of the Oklahomans who live in the ranch country near the southeastern corner of the state are uninsured, one…
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By:
Carly Putnam
October 2, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
Peoples Bank Tulsa must pay a $20,000 fine to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for discriminatory lending practices.
Regulators say the bank charged Hispanic borrowers higher rates on car loans than similar non-Hispanic borrowers. The filing, made public earlier this…
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Carly Putnam
September 30, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Brian Hardzinski and Kurt Gwartney
You can click through to the original article hear the entire “Poverty and the Safety Net” panel discussion moderated by Linda Edmondson at our Summer Policy Institute.
Census Bureau data released in September show…
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Carly Putnam
September 20, 2013 // Updated: October 17, 2013
OK Policy analyst Gene Perry discusses OK Policy’s report on state educational funding cuts, which found that Oklahoma had made the deepest cuts per pupil of any state in the US.
http://www.oeta.tv/video/3635.html…
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Carly Putnam
September 18, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Arnold Hamilton
When it comes to ObamaCare, state Insurance Commissioner John Doak should be indicted for political malpractice.
With important elements of the new federal law coming online Oct. 1, you’d expect Oklahoma’s public servants to be hard at…
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Carly Putnam
September 16, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
By Kurt Gwartney
You can click through to the original article hear the panel discussion moderated by Megan Benn on Oklahoma’s changing political landscape at our Summer Policy Institute.
It wasn’t long ago that to be involved in a meaningful…
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Carly Putnam
September 12, 2013 // Updated: October 15, 2013
by Emory Bryan
Oklahoma has earned a top ranking in education, by cutting more dollars from education since the recession than any other state.
A new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities puts Oklahoma at number one…
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Carly Putnam
August 31, 2013 // Updated: September 12, 2013
By Susan Hylton, Tulsa World
A study released by the Oklahoma Policy Institute shows that Oklahoma has the lowest gross production tax rate on unconventional or “horizontal” oil and gas wells when compared to six other major energy-producing states.
A…
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