By:
Kate Richey
November 19, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Click here for a copy of a presentation of this research to the OKDHS Practice and Policy Lecture Series on 4/25/2013
Oklahoma’s prosperity depends on the financial success and economic achievement of the people who call it home. For a…
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Given Oklahoma’s rapidly changing demographics, persistent inequality is a structural impediment to development and a drag on economic growth. Closing the opportunity gap for people of color is central to a prosperous Oklahoma.
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By:
Kate Richey
November 15, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The State Department of Health convened a leadership summit in October 2012 to address a public health problem that is as tragic as it is entrenched in Oklahoma: infant mortality. The summit is part of a statewide initiative to raise…
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Incomes for poor and middle-class families in Oklahoma have stagnated since the late 1990s, with nearly all of the growth in income going to the wealthiest households, according to a new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
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By:
Kate Richey
November 1, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Using data from the American Housing Survey, this analysis highlights how both the built environment of a physical space and differential access to quality public services affect household and neighborhood health. While the results reveal differences in the environmental quality…
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By:
Kate Richey
October 22, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Poverty in Oklahoma reached a six-year high in 2011, according to data released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data revealed that more than one in six Oklahomans – and almost one in four children – now live…
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By:
Kate Richey
October 16, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Poverty in Oklahoma reached a six-year high in 2011, according to data released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data revealed that more than one in six Oklahomans – and almost one in four children – now live…
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By:
David Blatt
October 3, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Over the past several decades, income growth for most American families has been weak or non-existent. Between 1979 and 2007, incomes for the top 1 percent of households grew more than the bottom 90 percent. Incomes for the top 1…
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By:
David Blatt
October 1, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last week, I attended CFED’s 2012 Assets Learning Conference, a biannual national gathering of practitioners, researchers, and advocates working to promote economic opportunity and fight poverty for low- and moderate-income Americans through savings, investment and ownership. Following the conference, I…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 27, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
These comments were excerpted from a speech given by Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at the 2012 Assets Learning Conference, a biannual gathering on asset-building hosted by CFED (Corporation for Enterprise Development) in Washington D.C.
The…
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