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Gene Perry
September 23, 2013 // Updated: September 23, 2013
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Kate Richey
September 20, 2013 // Updated: September 20, 2013
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Kate Richey
September 19, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This post was written by OK Policy intern Annie Mitchell (with a little help from Carly Putnam). Annie is a native Tulsan pursuing her Master’s in Social Work at OU-Tulsa. Carly is an undergraduate at the University of Tulsa majoring…
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as ‘food stamps’, faces steep cuts in Congress this fall. First, a temporary boost in SNAP benefits enacted by the stimulus bill (the 2009 Recovery Act) is set to expire in November. …
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House Republicans are proposing to cut at least $39 billion from the food stamp program over ten years. So who could be affected in Oklahoma?
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September 18, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Michael Givel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. Andrew L. Spivak is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. This is an edited and abridged version of a brief…
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David Blatt
September 17, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Fifteen years after Oklahoma expanded Medicaid eligibility for children, the number of uninsured children in the state continues to fall. The child uninsured rate in Oklahoma reached an historic low of 8 percent in 2011-2012, which is half the rate…
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Beginning October 1 and lasting until March 31, 2014, Oklahomans without access to affordable health insurance through their employer or a government sponsored plan will be able to purchase a plan through the new Health Insurance Marketplace.
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