This post was written by OK Policy intern Matt Simmons. Matt recently completed his MA in American history at the University of Tulsa. He will be enrolling in the history PhD program at the University of Florida this fall. He…
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Gene Perry
August 5, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A few weeks ago, NewsOK covered a Twitter debate about Oklahoma’s health care policy. It began when Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs analyst Jonathan Small implied that advocates of accepting federal funds for insuring low-income Oklahomans were ignoring other efforts…
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By:
Gene Perry
August 1, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post originally ran in September 2012. We’ve updated it with discussion of this year’s state funding of schools.
Oklahoma’s economy has performed relatively well over the course of the Great Recession, compared to the nation as a whole. We’ve…
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This post was written by OK Policy intern Carly Putnam. Carly is an undergraduate at the University of Tulsa majoring in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies. She can be found on Twitter at @CarlyPutnam.
A recent ACLU report revealed…
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By:
Gene Perry
July 30, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Previously on this blog, we’ve discussed Oklahoma’s long history of high poverty and the reasons for its persistence. We’ve also discussed the racial wealth and opportunity gap of our state, in which people of color as a group lag behind…
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An earlier version of this post appeared as a column in the Journal Record
$2,060 a month? Or $4,239? Two recent attempts to calculate how much income it takes to make ends meet reached starkly different conclusions. But both, in…
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