By:
Guest
September 17, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Kathy Ruffing is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), specializing in federal budget issues. A previous version of this post appeared on the CBPP’s Off the Charts blog.
With monthly jobs reports making the…
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By:
Kate Richey
September 12, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The number of Americans living in poverty remained unchanged in 2011, following three straight years of increases, according to new data from the Census Bureau released today. The current poverty rate is still at the highest level since 1993, with…
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These factsheets provide quick and colorful access to key demographic, economic, and social indicators for each county in Oklahoma. Get important county-level statistics – as well as statewide rankings and comparisons – at a glance. Counties are listed in alphabetical…
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By:
Gene Perry
August 28, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Yesterday, an Oklahoman editorial made the case that many of Oklahoma’s job licensing requirement are unnecessary and harmful to consumers. We made a similar argument in this blog post, originally published in February 2011.
One theme of Gov. Fallin’s State…
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Peter Fisher is Research Director of the Iowa Policy Project. This is an abridged and edited version of a brief that was prepared as part of a larger research project critically examining several state economic competitiveness rankings published by national…
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By:
Gene Perry
August 1, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The way that Americans produce and consume energy is at a major transition point. We’ve seen the emergence of powerful, parallel trends: a dramatic expansion of natural gas production, steadily growing renewable sources, growing concerns about climate change, reliance on…
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By:
Megan Benn
July 31, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A few months ago, Governor Fallin released the results of a survey of businesses from across the state that asked what they viewed as the strengths and weaknesses of doing business in Oklahoma. The results showed clearly that Oklahoma businesses…
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Poverty has been a part of Oklahoma’s landscape since before statehood. Early settlers faced enormous odds – drought, food insecurity, and nonexistent infrastructure – and possessed few material resources. During the Great Depression, the state lost nearly half a million…
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By:
Guest
July 19, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Indivar Dutta-Gupta is a Policy Advisor for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). This post originally appeared on the Off The Charts blog.
We previously showed that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-income workers lifts more…
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Welfare as most people imagine it doesn’t actually exist anymore. Public discourse conjures images of lazy people scamming the system and living large off their monthly government check. It’s a popular, but wildly inaccurate narrative. Welfare reform in the mid-1990s…
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