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New #PolicyMatters: 🔹 Oklahoma ranks 6th in poverty. 🔹 1 in 4 children face food insecurity. 🔹 Fortune 500 companies in Oklahoma rake in $1.3M profit per employee. Tell us again how the economy is working for everyone. 🤨

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#NowHiring: OK Policy is hiring a Communications Associate to help craft powerful messages and engage Oklahomans on key policy issues. Join our team and make an impact! 📍 Remote-friendly (Oklahoma-based) 💰 $45K - $50K + excellent benefits 📅 Full-time position ⏳ Apply by SUNDAY, March 23.

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Oklahoma’s housing crisis is getting attention at the Capitol—some good, some bad. A few bills could help renters stay housed, but others would make life even harder for unhoused Oklahomans. Here’s what’s happening 🧵 ⬇️

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🚨 URGENT: #SB868 could pass at any moment. This bill strips local control and forces cities to comply with Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Tell your State Senator to vote NO now. Email them here:

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#PolicyMatters: ⚠️ Oklahoma got $30B in federal funding in 2022. With federal dollars at risk, now is NOT the time for broad tax cuts. Responsible, targeted relief—like modernizing the Sales Tax Relief Credit—is the better path forward. #okleg

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As people struggle to afford housing and leaders call for action, the Trump Administration, Elon Musk, and DOGE are cutting HUD staff, withholding necessary funds, and making harmful policy changes, making it harder for people to afford housing and escape homelessness. www.cbpp.org/blog/doge-dr...

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A proposed bill in #OKLeg would grant school districts access to the entire Oklahoma Juvenile Authority information system. As @okappleseed.bsky.social notes: this bill could be harmful to vulnerable youth and breaches longstanding confidentiality protections. www.okappleseed.org/articles/sb-...

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Former House Speaker Steve Lewis takes a look at a bill that would create significant barriers to Oklahomans' right to put state questions up to a vote of the people. This right - known as the initiative petition - is enshrined in the state constitution. okpolicy.org/proposed-new...

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#CapitolUpdate: 🚨 Oklahoma lawmakers are trying to make it harder for the people to bring issues to the ballot. #SB1027 would create new barriers to the initiative petition process, making it nearly impossible for citizens to propose and vote on laws. 🗳️ #OklahomaDemocracy #OKLeg #VotingBarriers

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Fact: Immigrant workers help grow and are vital the US economy. Our new resource shows the economic benefits of immigrant workers—and the costs of mass deportations—in every state: www.epi.org/what-you-nee...

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A common misconception is that most minimum wage workers are teenagers; in fact, 82 percent are age 20 or older. And older workers are more likely to be parents. Raising Oklahoman's minimum wage would provide direct and indirect benefit to more than 320,000 residents. okpolicy.org/oklahomas-fa...

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Who is behind the dark money ads touting the governor's ill-conceived tax cut proposals? Who knows. And that's one of the many problems with dark money groups. Appreciate KFOR for trying to shine the light on these ads. 1/ kfor.com/video/whos-b...

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Proposing tax cuts absent any other factors has appeal to voters. But the resulting revenue loss has real, practical implications for the programs and services that Oklahomans rely upon daily. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

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An worker earning the minimum wage would have to work 110 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom rental in Oklahoma. Wages are too low, and not enough is being done to encourage building affordable housing. Both have achievable policy solutions to address these issues. nlihc.org/oor/state/ok

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OK Policy's Vivian Morris writes about the proposed Dental Therapy Act, which can help address our state's many unmet dental care needs. If passed, it would expand basic preventive and restorative dental treatment to children and adults in Oklahoma. okpolicy.org/dental-thera...

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[email protected] surveyed Day 1 stories on Trump’s anti-trans EOs across 6 major media outlets. Only 13 of 35 quoted a trans person. GLAAD noted one highlight: “Stories from @apnews.com were uniformly inclusive of the LGBTQ community.” glaad.org/media-analys...

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Measles case reported at Oklahoma elementary school in Bartlesville. It was a staff member at Wayside Elementary, the school district says. www.bps-ok.org/article/2066... #okhealth #measles

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Some politicians say Oklahoma needs more tax cuts to keep us competitive with Texas, which has no individual income tax. (Ask your Texas friends about their property taxes, btw.) #OKLeg has cut the state’s personal income tax 8 times since 2004. These cuts have done little for our economy. 1/

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OK Policy's Aanahita Ervin published an article today looking at the importance of income tax revenue as part of the state's overall fiscal health, as well as a handful of #okleg proposals that aim to reduce revenue through tax cuts. okpolicy.org/lets-not-kid...

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Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize honors the best investigative reporting on government, politics and public policy. www.readfrontier.org/stories/impa...

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The Oklahoma House Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight committee on Thursday is scheduled to hear HB 1362, which targets Oklahoma’s immigrant communities and separate children from their parents. Use your voice to tell lawmakers to vote NO on HB 1362! secure.everyaction.com/gk9C0ZtzVE6N...

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A bill that would establish long-term funding for Oklahoma’s 988 suicide crisis hotline failed in committee this week. Totaling 60 cents per line a year, the tax would have funded 988 when federal dollars are no longer being dedicated to the hotline. www.kosu.org/health/2025-...

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About 73% of Oklahoma families who received the private school tax credit/voucher for the spring 2025 semester had household incomes above $75,000. Oklahoma’s median household income — representing the middle point of all income earners, where half earn more and half earn less — was about $63,600.

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The governor is ratcheting up his sell job for across-the-board tax cuts. What's noticeably missing from his sales pitch? How this impacts your wallet. (Hint: If you're reading this, you're probably not gonna get much back ... especially compared with the top 1%.) okpolicy.org/fact-check-h...

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As the question of these private school tax credits/vouchers continue, it's important to remember that 1 in 6 Oklahoma children live in poverty. For a family of three, this means the child lived in a household that earned $24,500. How does this program help them? It doesn't.

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The @brennancenter.bsky.social points at the ways in which the Trump administration's crusade against federal agencies is targeting our election system, making potentially dangerous reductions to protections that help keep elections free, fair, and secure. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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The federal government is one of Oklahoma's top employers. Check this interactive tool to see how it impacts you city, county, and/or congressional district. economic.github.io/federal_work...

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Nearly 700,000 families and children would be hurt by proposed cuts to SNAP, the nation's largest food assistance program. Additionally, about 3,800 authorized retailers would be at risk for losing revenue.

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More than 370,000 Oklahoma adults could risk losing their health insurance under proposals that set burdensome work requirements for Medicaid. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

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