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Amount of federal funds Oklahoma stands to lose every year if the state does not accept Medicaid expansion.
Source: The Commonwealth Fund
The percentage of students in Oklahoma City Public Schools who are Latino.
Percentage of Oklahoma high school students who smoke.
Source: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Oklahoma City and Tulsa’s rank among metro areas of a similar size in the share of their bridges that are structurally deficient, 2012
Source: NDD United
The share of retail employees earning at least half of their family’s total income – and 18 percent of those are their family’s sole earner.
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute
Total cost of hunger in the state, including medical expenses and loss of potential revenue that healthier adults could have otherwise earned.
Source: Oklahoma Food Security Committee via NewsOK
Percentage of Oklahoma children in poverty living in families where at least one parent works full-time, year-round – versus 27 percent nationally
The number of children in Oklahoma that don’t have health insurance, 11 percent of the state’s children
Source: American Academy of Pediatrics
The percentage of Oklahoma’s population that is foreign born, compared to 13.0 percent nationally in 2011
Source: Migration Policy Institute
The value of food and agricultural exports shipped through Oklahoma’s Port of Catoosa, the 13th busiest inland port out of 32 nationwide
Source: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
