Oklahoma made national news in April when it enacted a new law barring cities from establishing a mandatory minimum wage. Oklahoma is not the only state with a blanket ban on raising the minimum wage; a handful of other states…
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This post is by OK Policy intern Haley Stritzel. Haley is a University of Tulsa student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies.
In his budget plan for next year, President Obama has proposed expanding…
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During the 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new savings initiative, appropriately titled ‘MyRA’. Created by executive order, the MyRA is a simple retirement savings account that will be available (after an initial pilot period) to…
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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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Ryan Gentzler is a Master of Public Administration student at the University of Oklahoma.
Elected representatives of all stripes are eager to make known their support for an “all of the above” energy policy, taking advantage of nonrenewable fuels like…
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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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Kate Richey
February 20, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The long-awaited 2014 farm bill reauthorization was signed into law in early February. First passed in 1933 to ease the economic pain of the Great Depression, it now bundles dozens of federal agriculture and food programs into one piece of…
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February 17, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Annie McKay is Executive Director of the Kansas Center for Economic Growth (KCEG). This post previously appeared on the KCEG blog.
Ever since Kansas enacted substantial income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013, we have eagerly awaited the prosperity and…
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Kate Richey
January 30, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard is the leading source for data on household financial security and policy solutions. CFED’s 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard evaluates how Oklahoma residents are faring across 66 outcome measures in five different issue areas…
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Despite an improving national economy and a (deceptively) low statewide average unemployment rate, nearly half (49.1 percent) of Oklahoma households are in a persistent state of financial insecurity, according to a report released today by the Corporation for Enterprise Development…
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