By:
David Blatt
January 14, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Today’s Graph of the Day shows that the number of correctional officers staffing Oklahoma prisons has fallen by 24.5 percent since 2000 and by 20 percent just in the past five years, while the number of inmates continues to rise.
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By:
Gene Perry
January 13, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In 1987, the median family made $21,691. Today they make more than twice as much. In 1987, the average gas price was $1 a gallon; today it is nearly $3. In that year, the Oklahoma Gazette voted Remington Park Race…
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By:
David Blatt
January 9, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Tax breaks for horizontal drilling and other forms of oil and gas production are projected to cost the state over $300 million this fiscal year and next, according to new calculations by Oklahoma Policy Institute. This does not include the…
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By:
David Blatt
January 7, 2014 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Despite almost four years of economic growth, Oklahoma’s core services have never fully recovered from the steep drop in revenues and repeated budget cuts that accompanied the Great Recession. Now we are facing another stretch of rough budget times and…
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By:
Gene Perry
December 17, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma Policy Institute released the following statement in response to the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s decision to strike down HB 2032, the income tax cut and capitol repairs law, because it violates the single subject rule in Oklahoma’s Constitution:
The Supreme…
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By:
David Blatt
December 12, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
OK Policy is pleased to host our first State Budget Summit Thursday, January 16th at the Oklahoma History Center. You can click here to register for the event.
With the theme of “Navigating the Perilous Fiscal Waters”, the summit will…
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By:
Mark Lash
November 18, 2013 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Mark Lash is a retired federal employee who follows Oklahoma policymaking, tries to understand it, and sometime even writes about it. See Mark’s previous post about the Quality Jobs Program here.
Oklahoma’s Quality Jobs Program began in 1993 and has…
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By:
David Blatt
October 24, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
There was very little good news in last week’s state revenue announcement as collections fell below both the prior year and this year’s estimates for both the month and the completed first quarter of FY 2014. This sluggish performance could…
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By:
Mark Lash
October 21, 2013 // Updated: January 19, 2019
Mark Lash is a retired federal employee who follows Oklahoma policymaking, tries to understand it, and sometime even writes about it.
Oklahoma’s Quality Jobs Program began in 1993. In fiscal year 2013, it paid incentives of $78.9 million to Oklahoma…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 17, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Blog Posts and Fact Sheets
OK Policy Blog Post: Moving new employees into 401(k)s would endanger existing pensions, increase costs to taxpayers (February 2014)
OK Policy Blog Post: The pension crisis is over (Oct. 2013)
Fact Sheet: Oklahoma Teachers Retirement…
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