Category: Reports and Fact Sheets

Action Items for Oklahoma

Action Items for Oklahoma is a seven part series by Oklahoma Policy Institute. The Action Item reports lay out recommendations for improving the shared prosperity of all Oklahomans while maintaining a fiscally responsible state budget. Future installments will focus on… Read more [More...]

Extending Medicaid Would Help Oklahoma Veterans

[Download 2- page fact sheet] In November 2012, Gov. Mary Fallin said she would not accept federal funds to extend Medicaid coverage to working Oklahomans with incomes of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line. The decision will… Read more [More...]

Threats to the Safety Net: Bills affecting low-income Oklahomans

A number of bills targeting safety net assistance to Oklahoma’s poorest families were filed this session. This page provides information and analysis on the policy implications of these bills. Read more. [More...]

Medicaid Proves Its Worth in Oklahoma

[Download full issue brief] [Download 2-page fact sheet] System is Far From ‘Broken’ and is Ready to Handle Expansion Accepting federal dollars to extend Medicaid would provide substantial economic benefits to Oklahoma, save the state millions of dollars that now… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma’s New Third Grade Retention Law

In 2011, Oklahoma amended the Reading Sufficiency Act (RSA) to ban social promotion (promoting a child based on age rather than academic achievement). A new issue brief by OK Policy and CAP Tulsa provides an in-depth analysis of how this law will affect Oklahoma students and schools. Read more. [More...]

How Much Would Extending Medicaid Cost?

[Download this fact sheet as a pdf.] Accepting federal funds to extend Medicaid would involve modest state costs while generating enormous economic and health benefits In Oklahoma, one in two low-income adults lack health insurance. They struggle to access timely,… Read more [More...]

Current Budget Information

This Budget Information page and the OK Policy blog provide you the key resources you need to make sense of where things stand with the state budget, follow emerging developments, and explore ideas for managing the state fiscal crisis. Read more... [More...]

Severe education funding cuts threaten Oklahoma’s economic future

Oklahoma has made some of the deepest cuts to funding for local schools of any state in the country. These cuts have serious consequences for educational quality and economic growth. Read more. [More...]

Quotes in Favor of Medicaid Expansion

Health Care Providers Pam Cross, Executive Director the Health Alliance for the Uninsured – “We really support efforts to look at this from several perspectives — certainly the health care needs of individuals, but also the impact that their poor… Read more [More...]

Medicaid Expansion: OK Policy’s Letter to Leadership

To:      Governor Mary Fallin             Speaker-Elect T.W. Shannon             President Pro Tem Brian Bingman From: Oklahoma Policy Institute David Blatt, Director             Board of Directors             Vincent LoVoi, Chair             Don Millican             Nancy Robertson                     Albert ‘Kell’ Kelly             Steve Burrage             Susan Neal             Linda Edmondson Subject: Medicaid… Read more [More...]