Category: Weekly Wonk

Weekly Wonk: How HR 1 reshapes the safety net in Oklahoma | Replacing property taxes with sales taxes would hurt everyday Oklahomans | More

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: Property taxes aren’t just bills — they’re the price of a functioning community. Lawmakers shouldn’t cut or change them without knowing the impacts. | Senate plan would shift $254 million to schools by capping teacher retirement funding | More

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: Eviction records should not create a lifelong barrier to housing | Culture war and ethics bills stall in House committee | Putting people before party | More

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: OK Indigent Defense System budget request signals new focus on diversion and rural defense | Our prisons are terrible. We need a big, bold plan | Our history still has something to teach us

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: ‘Broadening the Tax Base’ is code for an unfair tax system | Three new bills target rising home insurance costs in Oklahoma | There’s little comfort in saying ‘We told you so’

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: Common good is Oklahoma’s strength | Agency budgets are a piece of a larger state fiscal puzzle | Uncompensated Care—What’s That?

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: Governor’s executive order on ‘welfare reform’ misses the real problems facing Oklahomans | We need better policy choices, not campaign headlines | All Oklahomans should speak up, stand up during this legislative session

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: The One Big ‘Beautiful Bill’s hidden costs for states | What Oklahoma got right with tobacco lawsuit settlement money | Silence will never create change

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: Lifting caps on private school vouchers will make a bad idea worse | Proposed bill could increase support for children-focused nonprofits | Ways the Trump administration tried to erase MLK’s legacy

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]

Weekly Wonk: H.R. 1 could push Oklahoma’s health care system past its breaking point | SB 1381 aims to curb unnecessary pretrial detention | Tax cuts and building a better future in Oklahoma

What’s up this week at Oklahoma Policy Institute? The Weekly Wonk shares our most recent publications and other resources to help you stay informed about Oklahoma. Numbers of the Day and Policy Notes are from our daily news briefing, In… Read more [More...]