Numbers of the Day

How much Oklahoma’s wind power generation increased from 2008 to 2017, going from 2,358 GWh to 24,404 GWh.

[Environmental Research Letters]

Percentage of Oklahomans who have employer-provided health insurance

[Prosperity Now Scorecard]

Percent of babies born preterm in Oklahoma in 2016 (10th highest in the nation).

[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]

Cohort graduation rate of black high school students in Oklahoma, 2015-2016, which was 6 points below the rate for white high school students (83%).

[National Center for Education Statistics]

Number of people held in prisons and jails in Oklahoma per 100,000 residents, the highest incarceration rate in the world.

[Prison Policy Initiative]

Number of Oklahoma children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP health coverage as of March 2018.

[Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation]

Rural child poverty rate in Oklahoma, compared to an urban child poverty rate of 21.8%.

[Save the Children]

Percentage of Oklahoma renters that are cost burdened (spending 30% or more of household income on rent and utilities)

[Prosperity Now]

Amount of Tobacco settlement payments made by cigarette companies to Oklahoma in 2017.

[Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids]

Percentage of young children in Oklahoma (under age 6) living in families making less than the federal poverty level.

[National Center for Children in Poverty]