By:
David Blatt
November 12, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Note: As the economy continues to struggle and revenue collections remain well below pre-downturn levels, we thought this a good time to repost a blog we first ran in January of this year challenging an argument we continue to hear…
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By:
David Blatt
November 3, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Several months ago, with polls showing SQ 744 ahead by a two-to-0ne margin and supporters announcing that the National Education Association had committed over $3 million to the Yes campaign, many thought that the measure’s passage was a slam-dunk. Subsequent…
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By:
David Blatt
November 1, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Justin Jones, the author of this blog post, is Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections with 34 years of correctional experience.
Like many other state agencies, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has been confronted with severe budget reductions…
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By:
David Blatt
October 27, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
We’re nowhere close to being out of the woods. That’s been our message of late on the state’s budget outlook (you can take a look here at our blog post analyzing of the most recent monthly revenue collections and here…
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By:
David Blatt
October 20, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
Say that you’re a lower-income working-class family and the house you’re living in is falling into disrepair. There are cracks in some of the walls, parts of the backyard fence have fallen in, and you know that pretty soon you’re…
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By:
David Blatt
October 14, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Remember Mikey from those old cereal commercials? He was the picky eater whose siblings foisted a bowl of Life cereal in front of him saying, “It’s supposed to be good for you. But he won’t eat it. He hates everything”.…
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By:
David Blatt
October 12, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
The latest revenue collections announced today (PDF) by Treasurer Scott Meacham continue to confirm that while revenues are recovering from their precipitous drop during the worst of the downturn, the recovery is slow and far from complete.
September’s General Revenue…
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By:
David Blatt
October 7, 2010 // Updated: May 1, 2019
This week OK Policy distributed a 4-page memo on the state budget to all candidates for state offices, which we have now released to a broader audience. The memo is intended to offer policymakers a clearer understanding of the budget…
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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…
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One of the more contentious skirmishes in the battle over SQ 744 concerns the question of whether, in the absence of a constitutional amendment basing common education funding on a constitutionally-entrenched formula, Oklahoma’s elected officials have neglected K-12 funding.
Supporters…
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