By Mark Rosenfeld As the national conversation focuses on government debt, judicial nominees, and immigration reform, almost every state in the US has been struggling with their public sector retirement accounts. The Pew Center on the States reports that 34 US States have less than 80% of the assets they need to cover promised retirement […]
Oklahoma’s Universal Preschool Program: Better Than OK
By William T. Gormley, Jr. Over the past decade, my colleagues and I have produced a series of peer-reviewed articles evaluating the effectiveness of Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program, which President Obama praised in his State of the Union Address. Oklahoma’s program, established in 1998, now reaches approximately three-fourths of the state’s four-year-olds. The “Sooner State” […]