Articles
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Culture & the Family
GDP Undervalues the Impact of the Family
Clearly, maximizing GDP isn’t the same as maximizing economic well-being. The family plays a crucial role in a country’s determinant of economic well-being, and the family is grossly misrepresented in official U.S. economic statistics.Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | January 13, 2014
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Education
Financial Transparency Needed in Public Education
Do you know how much it costs to educate a student in Oklahoma? It’s likely more than you think.Jason Bedrick | January 13, 2014
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Budget & Tax, Agriculture, Good Government
Do Food Stamps Boost the Economy?
While there is good evidence that SNAP reduces hunger and food insecurity among poor households, there are also legitimate concerns about the program fostering government dependency, reducing the incentive to work, and increasing the government deficit.Jayson Lusk | January 13, 2014
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Agriculture
Toward a Free-Market Farm Policy
OCPA executive vice president Brian Bush recently sat down with economist Jayson Lusk, OCPA’s Samuel Roberts Noble Distinguished Fellow, to discuss agricultural subsidies, crop and livestock insurance, and more.Jayson Lusk | December 13, 2013
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Agriculture
Toward a Free-Market Farm Policy
Surveys suggest that more than 80% of professional economists believe that the United States should eliminate agricultural subsidies. However, only 34 percent of the general public agrees.Jayson Lusk | December 13, 2013
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Agriculture
Misplaced Wrath
With today’s farm bill hanging in the balance, it is instructive to take a brief look back at our nation’s long and complicated history with farm policy.Jayson Lusk | September 6, 2013
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Education
Policymakers Should Fund What Works
If indeed “the goal is student achievement,” as Mr. Edelman says—if the goal is to do what works—activists and policymakers should not be clamoring for something that doesn’t work: increased government spending on the monopoly system (see page 4).Brandon Dutcher | August 5, 2013
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Law & Principles
Competitive Federalism Can Help Rebuild America
The “old” is the idea that the American government has limited powers, and that those powers are mostly reserved to the states, where “the people” can put strict limits on their exercise.Patrick B. McGuigan | May 8, 2013
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Education
This land is not your land
Oklahoma native Woody Guthrie “didn’t like his own country and wanted to fundamentally transform it along the lines of his heroes, Marx and Lenin.”Brandon Dutcher | April 25, 2013
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Agriculture
Food Police Are a Threat to Our Liberties
Oklahoma is the sixth-fattest state in the nation. If that weren’t bad enough, a 2012 report entitled "F as in Fat" projected the percentage of Oklahomans as being obese to rise from 31 percent to 66 percent, placing us only behind Mississippi on the bathroom scales.Jayson Lusk | February 6, 2013