Numbers of the Day

Number of Oklahoma children who get health coverage through Medicaid, 1 in 2 of all kids in the state.

Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Number of hours a minimum-wage worker in Oklahoma has to work per week to afford a one-bedroom rental unit at fair market rent (spending no more than 30 percent of their income on rent)

Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Number of registered sex offenders in Oklahoma.

Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Oklahoma’s per capita GDP in 2014, 39th out of all 50 states and Washington D.C.

Source: Pew Charitable Trusts

Percentage of Oklahoma women living with a person with a disability age 15 or older in 2013. The national average is 14.4%.

Source: Status of Women in the States.

Number of discouraged workers in Oklahoma in Q1 2015, defined as working age individuals who have given up looking or had no success in finding a job before running out of unemployment benefits. The number of discouraged workers is up 50 percent from 6,800 in Q1 2014.

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Percent of Oklahomans who report eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables four or more days per week

Source: Gallup.

Percent of Oklahomans age 25 years and older who have completed an advanced degree, 2012.

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Cost of full‐time infant care as a percentage of median income for single mothers in Oklahoma in 2014.

Source: Child Care Aware

Increase in the share of Oklahoma’s population who are racial or ethnic minorities, from 31.3% in 2010 to 33.0% in 2014.