By:
Kate Richey
January 4, 2013 // Updated: January 4, 2013
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By:
David Blatt
January 3, 2013 // Updated: May 1, 2019
In late December, the Board of Equalization certified a preliminary estimate of the revenues available for next year’s budget. The numbers confirm that while the worst of the fiscal crisis is now far behind us, the state remains in the…
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By:
Kate Richey
January 2, 2013 // Updated: June 27, 2013
This is the first post in a running series based on our recent report, Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma, which assesses the racial wealth gap and proposes solutions for closing that gap through asset-building. There is a…
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By:
Kate Richey
December 31, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Over the past year, Oklahomans have coped with another year of severe drought, raging wildfires, rising poverty, sluggish job growth, rising health care and insurance costs, and the ongoing large scale deployment and return of National Guard and Army reservist…
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By:
Kate Richey
December 28, 2012 // Updated: July 25, 2015
What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk is dedicated to this week’s events, publications, and blog posts.
This week OK Policy Blog graphically dispelled the common myth that Medicaid is providing health care to adults who…
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By:
Kate Richey
December 27, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Incoming House Speaker T.W. Shannon recently suggested that SoonerCare/Medicaid enrollees in Oklahoma should get “off of Medicaid and back to work.” The idea that the Medicaid program is providing health care to adults who are choosing not to work is…
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By:
Guest
December 26, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Barry Friedman is a regular contributor to the OK Policy Blog. He writes the column, “Barry Friedman At Large” for Tulsa People Magazine, is a stand-up comedian, and is the author of two books, “Road Comic” and “Funny You Should…
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By:
Kate Richey
December 21, 2012 // Updated: July 25, 2015
What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk is dedicated to this week’s events, publications, and blog posts.
This week a guest post from Dr. Jonathan Wilner presented new findings that a significant part of the A-F…
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