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Number of states with a photo ID requirement for voters; 6 of those states passed the requirement in the past year
Percentage of fire departments in Oklahoma that are all-volunteer, compared to 71 percent nationally in 2010.
Share of Oklahoma households’ median income that is paid in premiums for employer-based family health insurance coverage, 2009
Source: The Commonwealth Fund
The number of states, including Oklahoma, that have a federally licensed spaceport (a base from which a spacecraft could be launched)
The number of registered library borrowers in Oklahoma in 2009, nearly half (46 percent) the state’s residents
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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
Monthly health benefit allowance for an Okla. state legislator, compared to $395 for the average SoonerCare / Medicaid enrollee, FY 2012
Source: Tulsa World and Oklahoma Health Care Authority
Percentage of SoonerCare/Medicaid enrollees who are children, pregnant women, seniors, or people with disabilities.
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute
Number of personal bankruptcies in Oklahoma attributable to medical debt, 2011
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute
Number of Oklahoma children in households claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, 2010
Source: Brookings Institution via Tax Credits for Working Families
