By:
Gene Perry
June 27, 2011 // Updated: October 17, 2012
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By:
Kate Richey
June 24, 2011 // Updated: July 25, 2015
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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 at OK Policy, summer intern Trevor Shanklin makes the case for reconsidering the criminalization of marijuana in…
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Last week, the Department of Human Services announced new co-payment and eligibility rules for the child care subsidy program, which we discussed in this post. By lowering the eligibility threshold for subsidies, the new rules will worsen the “cliff effect”…
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By:
Gene Perry
June 22, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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Oklahoma leads the nation for percentage of incarcerated women and is near the top for incarcerated men. Our prisons are at more than 95 percent capacity with only 70 percent staffing, which creates a dangerous environment for both guards and…
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June 21, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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Trevor Shanklin is a summer intern at the Oklahoma Policy Institute. He is a decorated disabled veteran of the Oklahoma Army National Guard where he served as a Recruiting and Retention NCO and a Combat Medic with the 1/279 Infantry…
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Public schools have long been clearinghouses for fitness and nutrition initiatives in the United States. Since the 1960s, the President’s Challenge program has inspired kids to meet physical fitness benchmarks. Schoolchildren began to learn about the basic building blocks of…
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