By:
Gene Perry
November 24, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Key Facts
As of 2013, an estimated 654,640 Oklahomans are food-insecure, which means that they don’t have consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle.
Oklahomans are more likely to be food-insecure than most Americans, and many chronic diseases…
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Camille Landry is a writer, activist, and social justice advocate who lives in Oklahoma City. This post is part of our “Neglected Oklahoma” series, which tells the stories of Oklahomans in situations where the basic necessities of life are hard…
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By:
Guest
November 16, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Abby J. Leibman is President and CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a national nonprofit organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. MAZON helps to fund OK…
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Elizabeth Armstrong is an OK Policy Intern and former military spouse. She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Geography at Oklahoma State University where she also works as a Graduate Research Assistant. Her free time is spent playing with her…
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By:
Gene Perry
November 9, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
What are the top employment sectors in your county? What has been your county's population trend since statehood? How does your county compare for health and educational attainment? You can answer these questions and more with Oklahoma Policy Institute's newly redesigned and updated CountySTATS fact sheets for 2015...
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Late this summer, we shared information about new mechanism allowing some high-poverty schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no charge for all students. Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, is part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. It…
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Did you know that 1 in 6 Oklahomans lived in poverty last year (annual income below $23,850 for a family of four)? Based on recently-released Census Bureau data, OK Policy's 2014 Poverty Profile breaks down what poverty looks like in our state...
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Ryan Gentzler is a Research Associate at the Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa and a former OK Policy Research Fellow.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recently issued a report that highlighted the effect of higher education on…
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By:
Guest
October 6, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Martin Koch is an M.A. student at the University of Kansas’s Department of Geography. He recently earned a B.A. in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has struggled under severe drought conditions for most of the decade. Conditions…
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[Update: During public comments on the ordinance, a large majority of those speaking said that passing it would be a mistake. A final vote is still scheduled for Oct. 13.]
Today the Oklahoma City Council is holding a public hearing…
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