A recent survey by the left-leaning Kaiser Foundation showed support for Obamacare at an all-time low. Hadley Heath at the Independent Wo...

Whether it is the politics of envy, a failed stimulus plan, government officials who think welfare is the best way to stimulate the econo...

In the United States, monkeys get root canals; in England, where the National Health Service serves as the single payer for health care, ...

Amid public controversy over the use of taxpayers dollars to send special-needs students to private schools, some Oklahoma parents who h...

Working with economist Art Laffer, the governor of Kansas and his budget director (an OCPA research fellow) are looking to eliminate the ...

Like most other agencies of state government, the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education (CareerTech) has been known to c...

The problems of Oklahoma City and Tulsa Public Schools are well known. What is much less understood is that many of Oklahoma’s affluent s...

The Global Report Card, which Jay P. Greene and Josh B. McGee discuss on page 4, “enables users to compare academic achievement in math a...

According to recent survey data (see here), Oklahomans want lower taxes and a smaller state government that provides fewer services. OCPA...

There are two diverging paths in America today. On one path are those who believe that more and more government, made up of countless age...

Oklahoma’s Task Force for the Study of Tax Credits and Economic Incentives has been doing some important work lately, and it’s looking mo...

It is a grave error to attempt to discuss tax reform without discussing spending reform.Current and future spending determines the future...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- There is new help for children with autism and other neurological illnesses.

Undergraduate education is a highly profitable business for nonprofit colleges and universities.But how, you may ask, can a nonprofit hav...

According to the latest data, it takes 18 Oklahomans in the private sector to fund one Oklahoma state government job.Regular readers of P...

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in trac...

It is a grave error to attempt to discuss tax reform without discussing spending reform. Current and future spending determines the futur...

It’s no secret that bullying is a big problem in Oklahoma’s schools. Examples of emotional, mental, and physical abuse are too numerous t...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Every building has to have one, but some school districts may not follow the law when they put on a new roof. That's the...

Apparently Coloradoans disagree with higher-education officials who believe that ten-fold increases in higher education costs are not eno...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- State workers are speaking out after they're forced to pay more for some things they buy with taxpayer dollars.  Th...

It’s an area that has not received much attention, but the effort being led by state Rep. T.W. Shannon to review the state’s thousands of...

On Wednesday the Speaker of the House appointed a standing ethics committee in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. While ad hoc, speci...

The future of oil will be shifting to the Americas, says the Institute for Energy Research (IER), as “the shale oil revolution will conti...

Almost a year ago, lawmakers in Illinois made it easier for states like Oklahoma to recruit businesses from Illinois by significantly inc...

The last many weeks we have witnessed groups of protesters in many cities living on the streets, disrupting commerce, committing crimes a...

In a speech this year at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels explained why Indiana decided to move its lo...

In an important speech tomorrow at a joint meeting of the Downtown Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions clubs in Oklahoma City, former Reagan econo...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov 29) – The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), a free-market think tank, released today the findings of a new re...