Category: Reports and Fact Sheets

Candidate Memo: The State Budget – Outlook and Recommendations

In early October, OK Policy distributed and released a memo to Oklahoma candidates and elected officials on the state budget. The memo was intended to provide a concise summary of our analysis of the state’s fiscal situation, and to suggest… Read more [More...]

Resources on Assets and Financial Security

OK Policy is actively involved in developing and promoting policy ideas that will allow more Oklahomans to build assets as a way to reduce poverty and expand economic opportunity. This page is intended as a guide to some key resources… Read more [More...]

New Report Urges Reform of Itemized Deductions

An August 2010 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report looks at how the group of tax breaks known as “itemized deductions” cost states hundreds of millions of dollars each year while providing no benefit to the great majority of… Read more [More...]

SQ 744

On November 2, 2010, Oklahomans will vote on SQ 744, a constitutional amendment that would peg the annual education budget in Oklahoma to the regional average per pupil expenditure in six neighboring states. OK Policy has released an issue brief… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform 2010 – Transitioning Health Care for Oklahomas Children and Families

Tricia Brooks, Senior Fellow with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, gave this presentation in Tulsa on June 18, 2010 as part of a forum titled, “Health Care Reform 2010: Transitioning Health Care for Oklahoma’s Children and Families.” You… Read more [More...]

Fact Sheets: Lottery, Gaming and Tobacco (2010)

In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved a series of measures that created the Oklahoma Education Lottery (SQ 705 & SQ 706), authorized and regulated gaming (SQ 712) and increased tobacco taxes (SQ 713) to generate new revenues to help fund education… Read more [More...]

Shining the Light on Tax Breaks

An OK Policy brief titled “Let There Be Light: Making Oklahoma’s Tax Expenditures More Transparent and Accountable” makes the case for increasing disclosure and scrutiny of tax expenditures, the array of exemptions, credits, deductions, and the like in the tax… Read more [More...]

2009 Oklahoma Self-Sufficiency Standard

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Oklahoma 2009 calculates the amount of income Oklahoma families need to meet their basic needs. The report was prepared by Dr. Diana Pearce of the Cenetr for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington for the… Read more [More...]

More Than Just Getting By: The importance of assets for promoting opportunity for Oklahomans

OK Policy’s issue brief, More Than Just Getting By, serves as an overview of asset building in Oklahoma. A major segment of the population has few, if any, assets, despite the fact that they are a key element in developing… Read more [More...]

New Who Pays? Report from ITEP

A new report  from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) reveals that low and moderate-income Oklahomans pay a greater percentage of their incomes in state and local taxes than those with higher incomes.  The full report is available … Read more [More...]