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Number of convicted felons in Oklahoma, making them ineligible to vote, unable to receive federal student loans, and barred from working in a litany of professions.
Source: American Elections Project
The number of Department of Defense civilian employees in Oklahoma who will be furloughed as a result of the sequester, reducing their gross pay by $123.9 million
Source: The White House
Amount Oklahoma would need to fund the Reading Sufficiency Act’s ban on social promotion at equivalent levels to Florida.
Source: OK Policy Blog
Percentage of the total population enrolled in HMOs in Oklahoma, compared to 22.5% nationally in 2011
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
Percentage of Oklahoma households without enough cash, savings or liquid assets to subsist at the poverty level for three months in the absence of income, like job loss or sudden inability to work
Source: CFED
Percentage of people on SNAP (or food stamps) in Oklahoma who were found ineligible for the program due to inaccurate information on their application, 3,465 out of nearly 615,000 Oklahomans in 2011
Source: USDA
Number of Oklahoma families that will lose health and nutrition assistance through maternal and infant programs if across-the-board federal budget cuts (or ‘sequestration’) aren’t averted by Congress
Amount of economic activity Oklahoma workers would generate in one year with the additional wages they would earn under a minimum wage increase (to $9.00/hr)
Source: Economic Policy Institute
The number of jobs created by new businesses in Oklahoma in 2012, compared to 11,320 jobs added by existing businesses
Source: Oklahoma Department of Commerce
