By:
Paul Shinn
August 4, 2009 // Updated: May 1, 2019
It will be worth your time to check out Better, Faster, Cheaper, a blog produced by former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith for the Kennedy School of Government. Among its gems is an excellent article by William Eggers, The Pension Time…
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The Oklahoman recently ran an editorial calling attention to the especially heavy toll that the current recession is having on male workers nationally and here in Oklahoma. A new issue brief from Economic Policy Institute, using data from the Bureau…
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By:
David Blatt
July 31, 2009 // Updated: October 17, 2012
The New Yorker‘s Shouts & Murmurs humor column recently ran a brilliant piece by Ian Frazier that imagined a colloquium convened by Al Gore to address the problem of global warming… of hell. After presentations by a Samaritan sorcerer of…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 30, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
As the debate about the speed and impact of stimulus spending rages on, Good Jobs First is taking on the less glamorous but equally important task of assessing accountability in state spending of funds from the stimulus bill (more formally,…
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We have not yet reached the end of the first month of the new fiscal year but already Treasurer Scott Meacham has publicly predicted that state General Revenue collections will fall far enough short of the forecast to trigger an…
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Matt Miller, writing for the TPM Book Club on a new book by Justin Fox called The Myth of the Rational Market, provides a thoughtful reformulation of the “government vs markets” debate:
…we’re too often peddled a phony choice between…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 27, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In the last days of this year’s legislative session, House Bill 2250 passed with little fanfare. HB 2250 puts a tax on wire transfers–$5 plus one percent on the amount over $500, with proceeds going to the Bureau of Narcotics…
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As of today, the federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 per hour, the final step in a three-step increase approved by Congress in 2007, after a decade when the minimum wage remained frozen at $5.15. Thirty-one states, including Oklahoma, will…
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As the national health care reform debate continues to heat up, most of the controversy has centered on such hot-button issues as the public option, individual and employer mandates, and paying for expanded coverage. One issue that is of considerable…
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By:
Paul Shinn
July 21, 2009 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week, State Treasurer Scott Meacham unveiled the the state revenue report for June, 2009. Revenue was below the previous year, for both the last month and the fiscal year as a whole, as we reported earlier.
It’s natural to…
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