By:
Sabine Brown
December 14, 2023 // Updated: December 22, 2023
Ending single-family zoning and allowing small multi-family homes is a proven path to improved housing availability and affordability; it’s one that Oklahoma policymakers should consider.
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While macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (the size of an economy) and the unemployment rate (the percentage of people who want work but can’t find it) are useful for measuring the overall health of an economy, they conceal inequalities and long-standing structural challenges that hurt many Oklahomans' ability to provide for themselves and participate in our economy.
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By:
Rebecca Fine
September 24, 2019 // Updated: September 22, 2023
A new KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot shows that many children in Oklahoma live in high-poverty communities that often lack these vital necessities. In Oklahoma, Black and Latino children are more than four times as likely to live in areas of concentrated poverty (census tracts where 30 percent or more of the population lives in poverty).
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By:
Gene Perry
June 4, 2019 // Updated: June 4, 2019
In this episode I spoke to Nehemiah Frank. Nehemiah is the founder and executive editor of The Black Wall Street Times, an online newspaper that covers news relevant to the black community in Tulsa and social justice issues affecting all Tulsans and Oklahomans.
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Chattel slavery of African-Americans lasted for 246 years, from when the first slaves were brought to Virginia in 1619 to when it was finally abolished in 1865. Another 99 years passed until the 1964 Civil Rights Act ended Jim Crow…
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Ryan Gentzler is a Research Associate at the Early Childhood Education Institute at OU-Tulsa and a former OK Policy Research Fellow.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recently issued a report that highlighted the effect of higher education on…
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By:
Gene Perry
December 5, 2014 // Updated: January 19, 2019
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Each week, the OK PolicyCast brings you the most important news about Oklahoma and what it means. In this episode, we talk…
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By:
Kate Richey
August 28, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the fifth post in a running series based on our recent report, Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma, which assesses the racial wealth gap and proposes solutions for closing that gap through asset-building. Previous posts detailed …
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This is the fourth post in a running series based on our recent report, Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma, which assesses the racial wealth gap and proposes solutions for closing that gap through asset-building. Previous posts explored …
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This presentation was delivered by Kate Richey on April 25, 2013 as part of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services policy and practice lecture series.
Closing the Opportunity Gap: Building Equity in Oklahoma…
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