Numbers of the Day

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.

Source: ODMHSAS Latino Population Workgroup

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

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty

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