By:
Paul Shinn
August 6, 2009 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Like most people who watch public budgets, we tend to focus on what is being spent, at the expense of what is being bought. Our upcoming Online Guide to Oklahoma Budget and Taxes looks at state and local expenditures more…
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By:
David Blatt
August 5, 2009 // Updated: October 17, 2012
Note – Occasionally we plan to re-run blog posts on topical subjects that you may have missed the first time around. Last week brought word from DHS that the number of confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect in Oklahoma…
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By:
Paul Shinn
August 4, 2009 // Updated: May 1, 2019
It will be worth your time to check out Better, Faster, Cheaper, a blog produced by former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith for the Kennedy School of Government. Among its gems is an excellent article by William Eggers, The Pension Time…
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The Oklahoman recently ran an editorial calling attention to the especially heavy toll that the current recession is having on male workers nationally and here in Oklahoma. A new issue brief from Economic Policy Institute, using data from the Bureau…
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By:
David Blatt
July 31, 2009 // Updated: October 17, 2012
The New Yorker‘s Shouts & Murmurs humor column recently ran a brilliant piece by Ian Frazier that imagined a colloquium convened by Al Gore to address the problem of global warming… of hell. After presentations by a Samaritan sorcerer of…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 30, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
As the debate about the speed and impact of stimulus spending rages on, Good Jobs First is taking on the less glamorous but equally important task of assessing accountability in state spending of funds from the stimulus bill (more formally,…
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We have not yet reached the end of the first month of the new fiscal year but already Treasurer Scott Meacham has publicly predicted that state General Revenue collections will fall far enough short of the forecast to trigger an…
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Matt Miller, writing for the TPM Book Club on a new book by Justin Fox called The Myth of the Rational Market, provides a thoughtful reformulation of the “government vs markets” debate:
…we’re too often peddled a phony choice between…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 27, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In the last days of this year’s legislative session, House Bill 2250 passed with little fanfare. HB 2250 puts a tax on wire transfers–$5 plus one percent on the amount over $500, with proceeds going to the Bureau of Narcotics…
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As of today, the federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 per hour, the final step in a three-step increase approved by Congress in 2007, after a decade when the minimum wage remained frozen at $5.15. Thirty-one states, including Oklahoma, will…
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