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Bad luck or hard times can hit any of us, and when it happens we should all be able…
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Undocumented Oklahomans are woven into the fabric of our communities in countless ways. Many have lived here for decades as they raise U.S.-born children, and they often work difficult, labor-intensive jobs that few legal residents will take. As the race…
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Jacob Tharp
June 8, 2018 // Updated: January 19, 2019
This post is by OK Policy intern Jacob Tharp. Jacob is a recent University of Oklahoma graduate in Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Oklahoma’s approximately 95,000 undocumented immigrants are a force in Oklahoma’s economy, accounting for about 1…
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Most Americans agree that it’s important to have a social safety net. Bad luck and hard times can hit any of us, and when that happens there should be something there to keep us from falling into destitution while we…
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Visit the Dream Act Toolkit website and urge your legislators to pass the Dream Act.
President Trump recently announced his plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by the start of next March. DACA, created by executive…
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Chan Aaron
July 6, 2015 // Updated: January 19, 2019
Chan Aaron is an OK Policy summer intern. He is pursuing an environmental policy degree at The University of Tulsa. He is also a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in philosophy and a veteran of the United…
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Shannon Guss is the Educare Project Director at the Early Childhood Education Institute (ECEI) at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa. Ryan Gentzler is a Research Associate at ECEI and an OK Policy Research Fellow.
With two bills from 2011…
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Nikki Hager
February 12, 2015 // Updated: January 19, 2019
This post is by OK Policy intern Nikki Hager. She is a senior Political Science and Economics major at the University of Tulsa.
In November, President Obama issued an executive order to grant deportation relief to approximately half of the…
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Carly Putnam
September 9, 2014 // Updated: January 19, 2019
At the end of July, we published a blog post debunking some myths about the unaccompanied children housed at Fort Sill in Lawton. Now that the temporary shelter there has been closed and the children have all been relocated, we…
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Kate Richey
July 22, 2014 // Updated: January 19, 2019
As most Oklahomans have heard and seen on the news, there are currently between 1,000 and 1,500 migrant children being housed in dormitories on Fort Sill, an Army base in southwestern Oklahoma near Lawton (among other places across the country).…
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