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Percentage of Oklahoma prison inmates with assessed need of substance abuse treatment who received that care in 2017.
[Oklahoma Department of Corrections FY 19 Appropriations Request]
Poverty rate for women in Oklahoma, compared to a 14.5% poverty rate for men in Oklahoma and a 14.5% poverty rate for women nationally.
[Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute]
Amount Oklahoma spent on private prisons and contracts in 2017.
[Source: Oklahoma Department of Corrections]
Estimate for how much revenue Oklahoma lost due to unpaid use taxes on online sales in 2017.
[Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute]
Share of senior households in Oklahoma that received SNAP food assistance in 2016.
Oklahoma’s student to counselor ratio. The American School Counselor Association recommended student to counselor ratio is 250: 1
Median household income for Native Americans in Oklahoma in 2017, compared to $50,051 median income for all Oklahoma households.
Net job loss among all Oklahoma firms in 2016, with 172,047 jobs created and 172,384 jobs destroyed.
The class size limit for grades 1 through 5 put in place by Oklahoma’s 1990 education reform bill. Lawmakers began exempting schools from meeting this class size limit due to underfunding over the past two decades, and today all school districts in Oklahoma have been exempted.
