By:
David Blatt
October 12, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The latest revenue collections announced today (PDF) by Treasurer Scott Meacham continue to confirm that while revenues are recovering from their precipitous drop during the worst of the downturn, the recovery is slow and far from complete.
September’s General Revenue…
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By:
David Blatt
October 11, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Amy Santee, the author of this guest blog, is Senior Program Officer with George Kaiser Family Foundation in Tulsa.
In my last blog post, I posed the following question: “Is it not better public policy to provide these (incarcerated) women…
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By:
David Blatt
October 7, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
This week OK Policy distributed a 4-page memo on the state budget to all candidates for state offices, which we have now released to a broader audience. The memo is intended to offer policymakers a clearer understanding of the budget…
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By:
David Blatt
October 6, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the fifth in an ongoing series of posts examining the new federal health care reform law. Our previous posts have explored the “cliff effect”; the impact on state budgets; the Temporary High Risk Pool; and tax credits for…
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By:
David Blatt
October 4, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
One of the more contentious skirmishes in the battle over SQ 744 concerns the question of whether, in the absence of a constitutional amendment basing common education funding on a constitutionally-entrenched formula, Oklahoma’s elected officials have neglected K-12 funding.
Supporters…
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By:
David Blatt
September 30, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 Assets Learning Conference that brought together over 1,000 participants for three days of plenaries, workshops and sessions exploring approaches to building an economy in which all Americans, including those of…
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By:
David Blatt
September 28, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Today the U.S. Census Bureau will release a new set of income, poverty and health insurance data based on the American Community Survey. This survey is the one recommended for state-level analysis, and we will be analyzing its data carefully…
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By:
David Blatt
September 26, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The first event in the Oklahoma Department of Human Service’s fall Practice and Policy lecture series will be held Thursday, October 7th from Noon to 1 pm at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. Dr. Gerald Clancy, President of…
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By:
David Blatt
September 23, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This week I am participating, along with over 1,000 other delegates from around the U.S. and a dozen foreign countries, in the biannual Assets Learning Conference hosted by CFED in Washington, DC (Click here to follow our Twitter feed from…
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By:
David Blatt
September 22, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week, the Census Bureau released new data showing that one in seven Americans, including one out of every five children, are now living in poverty. This week, some one thousand advocates, program directors, community organizers, business owners, policy analysts…
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