Topic: Economic Opportunity

To improve Oklahoma’s health, we must reduce inequality (Guest Post: Candace Smith)

By: Guest
January 20, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Candace Smith is an OK Policy Research Fellow and a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma’s (OU) Norman Campus. She is also a research assistant at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services’… Read more [More...]

Child care is getting less accessible for Oklahoma’s working parents

By: Carly Putnam
January 19, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
For many working Oklahoma families, child care is both an absolute requirement and a significant expense. The cost of child care can easily match or even surpass that of college tuition. Low-income families can catch a break through child care… Read more [More...]

What a difference a mile makes (Neglected Oklahoma)

By: Camille Landry
January 18, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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… Read more [More...]

Upcoming Event: ‘Dream On’ Film Screening

By: Tyler Parette
January 6, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
OK Policy and the OSU Forum of Geography Graduate Students will host a screening of the new documentary Dream On at OSU-Stillwater on Tuesday, January 19th at 6:30pm. In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the journey… Read more [More...]

Is this the blueprint for ending poverty? (OK PolicyCast)

By: Gene Perry
December 7, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
You can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, or RSS. The podcast theme music is by Zébre. This October, Stanford University’s Dr. David Grusky visited Oklahoma for a talk at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Grusky’s books include Social… Read more [More...]

Fact sheet: Hunger in Oklahoma

By: Carly Putnam
November 24, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The holiday season is a time when many of use will share feasts with our loved ones. Yet hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma still don't always know where their next meal will come from... Read more [More...]

Food Security Resources

By: Gene Perry
// 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… Read more [More...]

Song for my father (Neglected Oklahoma)

By: Camille Landry
November 23, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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… Read more [More...]

We’re asking the wrong question (Guest post: Abby J. Leibman)

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… Read more [More...]

Too many of Oklahoma’s military families are food insecure

By: Elizabeth Armstrong
November 11, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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… Read more [More...]