By:
Gene Perry
September 27, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Thompson is an education writer currently working on a book about his experience teaching for 18 years in the inner city of OKC. He has a doctorate from Rutgers University and is the author of Closing the Frontier: Radical…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 26, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
At the first meeting of the legislature’s tax reform task force, both chairmen expressed support for making top-down cuts to Oklahoma’s income tax or eliminating it entirely. In a previous post, we explained why that’s a bad idea. In this…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 23, 2011 // 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 the Census Bureau released new state-level data on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in 2010. The…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 22, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Update: Click here for our 2010 Poverty Profile based on the Census Bureau data
Despite Oklahoma’s comparatively modest unemployment rate and steady wage growth over the last two years, many of the state’s low income residents continue to be left…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 21, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This ten minute documentary produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation profiles the experiences of three Medicare families struggling to keep up with health care costs and other necessary household expenses on a fixed budget. According to the Census Bureau, 13.5…
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