By:
Dave Hamby
June 6, 2021 // Updated: June 5, 2021
Improving the health and well-being of Oklahoma's youth; Tulsa Race Massacre policy notes and numbers; Good ideas get stronger with debate
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This was a remarkably good year for legislation on behalf of children and youth, whether they are in the child welfare system, the juvenile justice system or at home and school. Below is a brief synopsis of several forward-looking bills…
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By:
Dave Hamby
May 30, 2021 // Updated: May 30, 2021
Highlights of the FY 2022 budget; Moving toward healing, reconciliation, justice; Improving Oklahoma’s health outcomes requires multi-faceted investments; Connecting to Health Care: The Ins and Outs of Enrolling for Medicaid Expansion
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By:
Emma Morris
May 27, 2021 // Updated: August 11, 2021
The FY 2022 budget reverses service cuts but remains at among lowest level in decades. The budget reflects a dramatic, if short-term, turnaround from last year.
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We must look at the factors that actually impact health and increase our investment in the mental, physical, and economic well-being of all Oklahomans.
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Getting a “nose under the tent” is an expression used regularly at the legislature when a new idea or program is proposed. The expression refers to an alleged Arab proverb that if a camel is allowed to get its nose…
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By:
Lstrom
May 23, 2021 // Updated: May 23, 2021
A first-look at FY 2022 budget; Oklahoma's inside-out budget process; anti-protest bills seeks to criminalize protesters; Prematurely stopping unemployment payments is short-sighted
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The $8.3 billion budget represents a modest increase from last year’s pandemic low. However, rather than trying to change Oklahoma’s overall trajectory through smart spending choices, lawmakers enacted tax cuts that will largely benefit out-of-state corporations, high-income households, and special interests.
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The Oklahoma Legislature was among the most vocal in choosing to pursue that strategy. The bills varied in levels of blatant unconstitutionality, but all 20+ different bills introduced at the Oklahoma Legislature this session shared the goal of chilling speech, criminalizing acts related to protests or accountability, and creating conditions that make people exercising their First Amendment rights less safe, especially when being critical of government actors.
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By:
Paul Shinn
May 17, 2021 // Updated: May 18, 2021
Because budgets affect us all, both immediately and into the future, they should be made in public view with public input. While most states show this is easily accomplished, Oklahoma’s leaders neither inform nor engage the public in their budget deliberations.
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