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Guest Blog (Betty Casey): Don't Wait For Superman

Betty Casey has taught high school English, middle school gifted and talented, and Freshman Comp., English Lit. and Humanities at the University of Oklahoma and Tulsa Community College. She is currently managing editor of TulsaKids Magazine, a monthly parenting publication.… Read more [More...]

The Weekly Wonk – November 23, 2011

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 published, “An Incomplete Recovery: The State Budget Outlook 2012-2015,” the third in our annual series… Read more [More...]

Hunger by the Numbers: How many football stadiums would it take…

In September, the US Department of Agriculture released its annual report on household food security. For the 3-year period from 2008-10, an average of one in six Oklahoma households, 16.4 percent, experienced food insecurity. This means that “at times during… Read more [More...]

In The Know: DHS bombarded with complaints over cuts to heating assistance

In The Know is a daily synopsis of Oklahoma policy-related news and blogs. Inclusion of a story does not necessarily mean endorsement by the Oklahoma Policy Institute. E-mail your suggestions for In The Know items to gperry@okpolicy.org. You can sign… Read more [More...]

Read This: A glossary of tax terminology

If all the recent talk about tax credits and exemptions and tax reform have left you scratching your head, you’re not alone.  Keeping up with the tax debate – and its accompanying jargon and terminology – can challenge even the… Read more [More...]

In The Know: Entry exam for kindergartners part of Oklahoma's grant application

In The Know is a daily synopsis of Oklahoma policy-related news and blogs. Inclusion of a story does not necessarily mean endorsement by the Oklahoma Policy Institute. E-mail your suggestions for In The Know items to gperry@okpolicy.org. You can sign… Read more [More...]

Job Posting: Oklahoma Assets seeks project manager

Oklahoma Assets is seeking a Project Manager to support the development of its organizational structure and implementation of its program and partnership activities.  Oklahoma Assets is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advocate policies and programs that can help… Read more [More...]

An Incomplete Recovery–and a chance to do better

Today we published “An Incomplete Recovery: The State Budget Outlook 2012-2015.” This is the third of our annual series of forecasts for the state budget. Our goals for this project are both to inform leaders and citizens about the state’s… Read more [More...]

In The Know: Officials predict 'flat' budget due to tax cuts and loss of one-time money

In The Know is a daily synopsis of Oklahoma policy-related news and blogs. Inclusion of a story does not necessarily mean endorsement by the Oklahoma Policy Institute. E-mail your suggestions for In The Know items to gperry@okpolicy.org. You can sign… Read more [More...]

The Weekly Wonk – November 18, 2011

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk is dedicated to this week’s events, publications, and blog posts. On our blog, we reported on a speech by PolicyLink CEO Angela Blackwell Glover making the case that an… Read more [More...]

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