Number of the Week
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Oklahoma’s rank nationally for the percentage of its residents who report engaging in no leisure-time physical activity at all, 31 percent of adults in 2010
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Quote of the Week
Gov. Mary Fallin, one of the most adamant supporters of this bill, insists on her official website that, as governor, she will create ‘a system where good teachers and good schools are rewarded.’ My school is not just good, Gov. Fallin, it is excellent. Please start treating it as such.
–Norman High School junior Emily Frech, writing in The Norman Transcript on putting tax cuts before restoring funding for education
Chart of the Week
OK Policy Note
In all of the major income tax proposals this year (including the plan announced yesterday by Senate Republicans), the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been targeted for elimination. That’s strange, because lawmakers have made no clear argument for why we should lose this credit. They’ve spoken about the need to end handouts to “corporate special-interests,” but the EITC goes to low-income working families. It’s also strange because the EITC has a long history of support from conservative leaders. So why are Oklahoma lawmakers proposing to end it? {click here to continue reading this post}