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Percentage of registered voters in Oklahoma that oppose an income tax cut that reduces revenue for education, public safety and health care
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute Poll via Global Strategy Group
Oklahoma’s rank nationally for the percentage of seniors (>65 years) living with a disability, 43 percent of the state’s seniors, 2010
Source: AARP
Amount of funding the federal ‘sequestration’ budget cuts will take annually from substance abuse treatment and prevention in Oklahoma, resulting in about 800 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs
Source: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) via Whitehouse.gov
Percentage of babies born in Oklahoma that are low birth weight, compared to 6 percent nationally in 2013
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Percentage of Oklahoma’s 342,000 veterans that are women, 2012
Source: Department of Veteran Affairs
Amount that a tax cut proposed by state leadership would take from Oklahoma’s schools and other core services
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute
Percentage of restaurant chains in Oklahoma that are ‘fast-food’ chains, compared with just 27 percent nationally in 2013
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Percentage of children in poverty in Oklahoma who are not enrolled in the state’s TANF or ‘welfare’ program
Amount Oklahoma’s public schools have lost per student in education funding over the last five years
Source: OKPolicy Blog
Oklahoma’s rank for the rate of female death due to firearms, 4.6 women per 100,000, compared to just 2.8 women nationally
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
