Mapping poverty can be deceiving. This interactive map showing poverty rates by census tract across Oklahoma helps pinpoint the smaller areas with extreme levels of deprivation.
Budget Crisis Clips Credit For Working Poor
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Oklahoma lawmakers have voted to pare back the state’s earned income tax credit. The incentive provides an annual income boost to about 200,000 low-income households with working parents.
Revisit: ‘Nobody,’ a Short Video Journey into Homelessness
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As advocacy groups and volunteers prepare to count the homeless this winter, walk in the footsteps of Danny, a Norman man who became temporarily homeless.
Oklahoma Watch-Out: Challenges in South OKC
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As part of the “Talk With Us” mobile video project, Oklahoma Watch held a forum in south Oklahoma City featuring Oklahoma City Councilwoman Meg Salyer, OKC Public Schools board member Gloria Torres and attorney Michael Brooks-Jimenez.
Talk With Us: Poverty in Oklahoma City Neigborhoods
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What are the challenges of living in low-income neighborhoods? Journalists at Oklahoma Watch and students at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication unveiled a mobile-video project on impoverished neighborhoods.
Beyond the Racist Chant: The Facts About Black Inequality
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Recent controversy over a racist chant at a University of Oklahoma fraternity focused attention on the state’s race relations and inequalities.
Work Requirement May Be Pushing Oklahomans Off Food Stamps
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The number of people receiving food stamps in Oklahoma has dropped, and officials attribute the decline to a reactivated work requirement.
Profile: Pursuing a Degree to Climb out of Poverty
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Brittney Scott, 23, a single mother of two, hopes a GED will help lift her out of poverty and dependence on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
Profile: Living With Gaps in the Safety Net
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Russell Perry of Turley is supporting a household of six on $21,000 a year in government assistance.
53 Years of Poverty in Oklahoma
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Poverty Rate, 2012
Poverty by Age Group
Poverty by Race or Ethnicity
Source: U.S. Census Bureau.