By:
Guest
October 31, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Smith is the planning director for the Yale National Initiative at the University of Tulsa, a partnership between TU, Tulsa Public Schools, and Yale University to strengthen teaching in Tulsa schools. She recently completed a Ph.D. in Public Policy,…
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By:
Steve Lewis
October 28, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol.
There was more bad news this week that Oklahoma, for the third straight year, had…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 26, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Descargue esta hoja informativa en formato PDF.
El punto importante
SQ 779 es una enmienda constitucional que elevaría a 1% el impuesto de ventas y uso. De todos los ingresos generados por el nuevo impuesto, el 60 por ciento se…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 20, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma’s investment in preK-12 education has plummeted in recent years. The state continues to rank worst in the nation for cuts to general school funding, according to a new report released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan…
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By:
Guest
October 19, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Carl Davis is Research Director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that works on federal, state, and local tax policy issues.
When is a charitable contribution not a “donation” at all? If a taxpayer…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 11, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma families are able to put enough food on the table because of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). But research increasingly shows that it accomplishes much more than that.
Growing up in poverty is shown…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 21, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
One of the most hotly debated State Questions that Oklahomans will decide this year is SQ 779. The measure would increase the sales tax to improve education funding — with most of the new funding dedicated to teacher raises. While…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 19, 2016 // Updated: October 26, 2020
It’s well known that state aid funding in Oklahoma has struggled in recent years — since 2008 we’ve cut per student state aid by 24.2 percent after inflation, the largest drop in the U.S. Cuts to state aid affect all…
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By:
Gene Perry
September 12, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Learn about other state questions on the ballot in Oklahoma.
Download this fact sheet as a pdf.
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The Gist
SQ 779 is a constitutional amendment that would raise the state sales and use tax by one percentage point.…
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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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