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Increase in imprisonment in Oklahoma from 2009-2014, the sixth largest increase in the nation. Imprisonment increased despite a 17 percent drop in crime rates.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics via the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Average student debt at the for-profit DeVry University, the highest of all public and private universities in Oklahoma. Almost two-thirds of DeVry University’s students in Oklahoma are low-income.
Source: U.S. Department of Education via Oklahoma Watch
Percentage of occupied housing units in Oklahoma built in 1939 or earlier.
Oklahoma’s per capita spending on mental health treatment, lower than all but five states.
Source: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Families with children ages 0 to 8 where no available parent had full-time, year-round employment in Oklahoma in 2012
Source: Kids Count.
Estimated number of households in Oklahoma with no Internet access, 24.4% of all households in the state.
Teen (age 15-19) death rate per 100,000 in Oklahoma in 2011, the 5th-highest in the US.
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation.
The rate of obesity in Oklahoma in 2014, sixth highest in the nation.
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Oklahoma Watch
Percentage of Oklahomans with a disability in 2012, 8th highest among all fifty states.
Percentage of Oklahoma’s Kindergarten to 12th grade students who were enrolled in a public school in 2014.
