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Percent of Oklahoma child care providers that could permanently close due to COVID-19 without state financial assistance.
[Source: Center for American Progress]
The number of unemployment claims filed in Oklahoma since the pandemic began.
[Source: Tulsa World]
The percentage of Oklahoma child care programs that have parents who cannot pay fees or child care subsidy copays.
[Source: NAEYC COVID-19 Survey Data by State]
Percentage of expected learning gains in mathematics from students returning in fall 2020 when compared with normal conditions. As a result of education disruption caused by the virus outbreak, students nationwide in fall 2020 are likely to be returning with less than 50% of the learning gains behind what would be observed in normal conditions. In some grades, some students may be nearly a full year behind.
[Source: NWEA Research]
The mean age of Oklahoma deaths related to COVID-19 since March 19. Seniors have made up 80 percent of the state’s reported deaths due to the virus, while they are only 16 percent of the state’s population.
Percentage of Oklahomans who have completed their 2020 Census, which lags the national average of 52.4 percent. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau]
Weeks of unemployment benefits Oklahoma’s unemployment trust fund has funds to pay for. (As of April 4, 2020)
[Source: Tax Foundation]
Estimate of Oklahoma’s monthly ability to test for COVID-19, which ranks the state among the nation’s four lowest rates. Oklahoma, Oregon, Montana, and Maine are able to test fewer than 30 in 1,000 people per month, according to a recent White House communication.
[Source: Public Radio Tulsa]
New and continuing unemployment claims in Oklahoma as a percent of the workforce, ranking the state 39th most affected by COVID-19 layoffs as of April 11, 2020.
[Source: Tax Foundation]
The decline, measured in barrels a day, that daily global oil consumption has dropped to date in April. This will be seven times larger than the biggest quarterly decline after the 2008 economic crash. That represents one quarter of the world’s normal daily consumption, which is just under 100 million barrels.
[Source: Axios]
