OK Policy Blog

Featured Read

2023 Census data: Oklahoma ranks as sixth poorest state

By: Oklahoma Policy Institute
September 12, 2024 // Updated: September 12, 2024
Lawmakers have options to improve Oklahomans’ well-being, access to prosperity Data from the Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey released Sept. 12 show that Oklahoma’s poverty rate was 15.9 percent, which was the nation’s sixth highest. The national poverty rate… Read more More...

Recent Posts

For OK Policy, it's been a very good year

By: David Blatt
December 29, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
As 2010 winds down, I wanted to take a moment to offer a heartfelt thanks to all of you who have helped make this a very good year for Oklahoma Policy Institute. The year started with OK Policy in the… Read more [More...]

2010 Most Popular Blog Posts

By: David Blatt
December 28, 2010 // Updated: October 17, 2012
Last year I managed to rouse myself out of my post-Christmas, pre-New Years slumber long enough to pull together a Top 10 list of our most popular blog posts. If this organization, with its rich history dating all the way… Read more [More...]

Not too shabby: Comparing our revenue forecasts and theirs

By: David Blatt
December 27, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Earlier this month, we released a brief that provided our projections for state revenue collections for Fiscal Years 2011 through 2014.  Last week, the State Board of Equalization certified its official preliminary revenue estimates for FY ’12, along with updated… Read more [More...]

FY '12 revenue certification: It still adds up to more hard times

By: David Blatt
December 22, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The State Board of Equalization met yesterday to certify preliminary revenue estimates for the upcoming budget year, FY ’12. These estimates will form the basis for the Governor’s Executive Budget that will be delivered in early February; the Board will… Read more [More...]

Upcoming Event: Dean Baker in Tulsa, January 9th

By: David Blatt
December 20, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma Policy Institute is delighted to be hosting economist Dean Baker for a talk titled, “The Great Recession: How We Got In and How We Get Out” at the Dilly Deli restaurant in Tulsa, January 9th, 2011. The event will… Read more [More...]

A different take on poverty

By: Paul Shinn
December 17, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, was this month’s speaker at DHS’ Practice and Policy Lecture Series. Haskins looked at causes and offered solutions to the persistence of poverty in the United States. He attributed poverty to four… Read more [More...]

State Revenues: One-third full or two-thirds empty?

By: David Blatt
December 15, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Yesterday’s announcement of state General Revenue (GR) collections for the month of November showed that the state continues to recover only slowly and partially from the depths of the downturn. Outgoing State Treasurer Scott Meacham chose to highlight that November… Read more [More...]

New Medicaid online enrollment puts Oklahoma out in front

By: David Blatt
December 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
“Is there anyone here from Oklahoma?” I was at a national conference of health care policy experts and advocates last month when the morning’s plenary speaker, Cindy Mann, Medicaid Director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posed that… Read more [More...]

Show Us the Subsidies: New report sheds light on disclosure efforts

By: David Blatt
December 9, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma is doing a better job of providing public disclosure of economic development subsidies being paid out to companies but still has considerable room for improvement, according to a new report from Good Jobs First. The report, titled Show Us… Read more [More...]

New issue brief: Let's focus on more than "this year's shortfall"

By: Paul Shinn
December 7, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Today OK Policy released “A New Fiscal Reality for Oklahoma: The State Budget Outlook, 2011-2014,” our second annual multi-year budget forecast. Click here for the full 10-page brief or here for the 1-page summary. Dangerously nerdy readers also can check… Read more [More...]

Search the Blog