News RoundUp

• Education Leaders See Few Benefits of in Ballot Measure to Give Schools More Financial Stability

• Oklahoma Hospital Tries GoFundMe to Keep Its Doors Open

• New Census Data Shows That Oklahoma Fell Further Behind the US on Poverty and Uninsured Rate for Second Year

• The Strawberry Capital of the World is the Early Death Capital of the US

• #OKLeg Freshman Class Size to be Almost Unprecedented

• Dark Money Spending Hits Record in Oklahoma, With Surge to Come

• On The Sidelines of Democracy: Exploring why so Many Americans Don’t Vote

• Most States Lack the Reserves to Weather the Next Recession

Take-aways

• Everyone is campaigning, so most of the updates are in the form of articles this week.

• Voter turnout is key to making change in our state.

• All politics is local. The more local the race, the more of a direct impact it has on your day-to-day life.

• There’s going to be a ton of new legislators going into next year, so it is imperative that we as voters & advocates begin getting to know them soon. They’re going to have a lot to learn about how things work at the Capitol…and we need to ensure they learn the right things.

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