While our friends on the Left maintain that tax rates are not a significant factor in business location, states like Illinois are showin...

For quite some time, we have heard from President Barack Obama and his administration about the various things that government does to c...

In the last two issues of Perspective, we looked at two avenues of job creation: the in- and out-migration of business establishments, a...

What is Oklahoma’s business climate? That is an old question, and one that is usually answered with one anecdote or another. Unfortunate...

What is Oklahoma’s business climate? That is an old question, and one that is usually answered with one anecdote or another. Depending o...

As Oklahoma policymakers ponder next year’s “budget hole,” they should remember that a tax hike would mean lower incomes and fewer jobs.

Lay off employees, drop Medicare patients or relocate to a cheaper office: those were the recent options for one Atlanta urologist in th...

... in context.

New evidence suggests families are moving to Oklahoma in droves. Now we just need more family-and job-friendly policies to keep them here.

Oklahoma taxpayers have no direct way to judge whether or not they are getting a good "bang for the buck" for the goods and services pro...

While Oklahoma's private sector has shed more than 36,000 jobs during this recession, one sector of the state economy has shown itself t...

As Oklahoma's private sector has shed more than 36,000 jobs during this recession, Oklahoma's state and local governments have added 8,6...

The U.S. taxpayer bailout of General Motors points toward the rising trend of European-style socialism in the United States. But wait, i...

Personal income is an important economic measure of a state's well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state's residents...

Today's extended forecast includes "higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery," Kar...

A recent article in the New York Post (‘Adios, New York') is evidence that tax policy matters for economic growth. High taxes at the sta...

As we pointed out in these pages in December ("Overcrowding on the Government Gravy Train"), data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (...

This year's budget hole at the state capitol is big. And if the politicians' reluctance to tap the Rainy Day Fund is any indication, nex...

Oklahoma's government workforce is bloated. OCPA's economists pinpoint the culprit. Also in this issue: Crowding Out Oklahoma's Pr...

In the debate in Washington, D.C. over the so-called stimulus package, there is one basic truth that has largely been ignored: Only the ...