Category: Weekly Wonk

Weekly Wonk: The Big ‘Beautiful’ Delay | Oklahoma shouldn’t allow private prisons to reopen as immigration detention centers. Here are 6 reasons why. | Senators request interim study to rethink how Oklahoma cities are funded (Capitol Update)

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: Community-led crisis response is working, but Oklahoma needs a statewide solution | Making Oklahoma healthy requires more than a slogan | Oklahoma’s “failure to protect” law under scrutiny in new interim study

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: Statement from the OK Policy on passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill” | True patriotism means speaking up | Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of new business court law | 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: Youth justice recap during this #okleg session | Protests get likes; voting gets results | Cash bail doesn’t make us safer, but pretrial reform can

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: Oklahoma’s unsustainable budget | A not terrible year for justice reform | Medicaid cuts will endanger lives of Oklahomans

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: Report: Oklahoma ranks 46th in child well-being | Oklahomans should be watching LA immigration raid protests with concern | SB 1168 expands liability for government-caused injuries, property damage

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: Immigration, housing, Tribal-state policy highlights from 2025 #okleg session | Contentious budget negotiations opened door for governor’s business court plans | When lawmakers cut budgets, it rolls downhill

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: New data shows state’s housing crisis is worsening | Oklahoma destined to remain poor state without investments | New federal budget bill would harm our children, families

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: Federal budget bill is redistribution of wealth to the rich | We know what works. Lawmakers are cutting taxes instead | The governor’s agenda isn’t a plan — it’s a power grab | Capitol Update

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: IRS-ICE agreement breaks public trust | State budget deal announced | This is a bad time for a tax cut | Capitol Update

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...]