Articles
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Budget & Tax
Iowa is cutting its personal income tax
Over the last five years, Iowa cut its top personal income tax rate from 8.98 percent to 5.7 percent.Curtis Shelton | April 24, 2025
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Higher Education
Student groups at OU, OSU, and UCO ‘vow to resist the presence of ICE on our campus’
A student group linked to antisemitism nationwide is urging Oklahoma officials to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from enforcing immigration law on Oklahoma campuses.Ray Carter | April 23, 2025
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Education
Urban Institute study shows school choice benefits low-income children
A new study from a center-left think tank finds that Ohio’s school voucher program had large and lasting positive effects on the primarily low-income students who used scholarships to attend private school.Ray Carter | April 23, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency accused of anti-white racism
A recent lawsuit alleges the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) discriminated against white, Asian, and Pacific Islander homeowners when administering a federal COVID mortgage-relief program.Ray Carter | April 21, 2025
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Budget & Tax
What Oklahoma could learn from Ohio’s tax-cut experience
Ohio’s experience with personal income-tax cuts gives us a glimpse of what could have happened here had Oklahoma not stalled out on its income-tax journey.Curtis Shelton | April 21, 2025
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Budget & Tax
State tax competition is fierce
Oklahoma’s tax on work and investment—the personal income tax—remains among the highest in the region and across the country. Fortunately, Oklahoma lawmakers are taking this problem seriously.Jonathan Small | April 21, 2025
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Higher Education
Federal crackdown on illegal discrimination targets OU–Tulsa School of Community Medicine
The University of Oklahoma–Tulsa School of Community Medicine was among those identified as being under federal investigation for alleged impermissible race-based scholarships and race-based segregation.Ray Carter | April 17, 2025
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma lawmakers focus on reducing regulation
Within a matter of hours on the same day, members of the Oklahoma Legislature advanced two measures designed to significantly restrict regulation in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | April 16, 2025
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Education
Oklahoma lawmakers vote to end discrimination against special-needs children
Members of an Oklahoma House committee have voted to end a two-tiered system that forces the families of children with special needs to jump through hoops that other families are not subjected to when accessing a school-choice program.Ray Carter | April 16, 2025
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Budget & Tax
This state slashed its income tax, yet state revenues grew
North Dakota’s income-tax rate has been cut in half over the last two decades, yet state revenues grew by 245 percent.Curtis Shelton | April 16, 2025