By:
David Blatt
September 1, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The National Conference of State Legislatures has developed an interesting interactive demographic map that allows you to examine the makeup of each state’s legislature by ethnicity, gender, age, religion and occupation and compare those figures to national averages. Oklahoma’s most…
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By:
David Blatt
August 31, 2009 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The continued weakness of natural gas prices and production is the most important factor accounting for Oklahoma’s disappointing revenue collections. July collections from natural gas production to the General Revenue Fund (GRF) totaled just $22.2 million in July – a…
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By:
Paul Shinn
August 28, 2009 // Updated: October 17, 2012
Check out Slate.com’s animated map of the changing job picture over the last three and a half years. If you scroll down to the map and click the green arrow at the lower right, you can watch the job picture…
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By:
Paul Shinn
August 27, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Our new Stimulus Update looks at the $52 billion in education funding in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA, better known as the stimulus). The education programs, in contrast to most other ARRA funds coming to state and local…
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By:
Paul Shinn
August 26, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the second of two blog posts on rural poverty by Mariah Levison, a graduate student in International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, based on a presentation that Oklahoma Policy Institute gave last month at McCurtain Memorial…
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By:
Paul Shinn
August 25, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Six months into the federal stimulus program (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA), most of the discussion has centered on infrastructure projects and the impact on economic recovery and jobs, if any. Today, we’d like to focus on…
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By:
David Blatt
August 24, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
If you did not see last Sunday’s Tulsa World, it is well worth checking out their front-page profile of families hit by the economic downturn, titled “Faces of the Recession”. Reporters Ginnie Graham and Mike Averill tell the stories of…
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By:
David Blatt
August 20, 2009 // Updated: May 1, 2019
As a follow-up to our earlier post about the announced cuts to state agencies resulting from the shortfall in July revenue collections, we have prepared a spreadsheet that shows how much of a cut each agency will receive in dollar…
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A story in USA Today, “Oklahoma City defies recession,” focuses on OKC as the city with the 2nd lowest unemployment rate in the country. In response to questions about OKC’s secret to success, Roy Williams of the OKC Chamber said…
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By:
David Blatt
August 18, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week we released the August edition of our Numbers You Need bulletin. In addition to tracking monthly and quarterly trends in employment, inflation, work support programs. state revenues, and foreclosures, each issue also looks at annual data for one…
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