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Tell us about your experience with Oklahoma’s ‘Back to Work’ incentive program
As part of its ongoing coverage of the unemployment situation in Oklahoma, The Frontier wants to hear from people who applied for the state’s Back to Work Initiative incentive payments announced earlier this year.
More funding hasn’t ended Oklahoma’s 13-year wait for disability services
A consultant the Department of Human Services is paying $8.5 million to help solve the problem isn’t doing work that is substantially different from five previous efforts, the report found.
Oklahomans We’ve Lost: A doting father who made everyone laugh
“He was supposed to have more years with us.”
Five year residency requirement for Oklahoma developmental disabilities services unconstitutional, federal agency says
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services said it plans to drop a five-year residency requirement for people seeking to sign up for intellectual or developmental disability waiver services after being informed it was unconstitutional.
Oklahoma prisons have stopped widespread COVID testing even as cases spike again across the state
The Department of Corrections does not follow most federal guidelines for testing and masking for staff
After she lost her job, Oklahoma cut off her pandemic unemployment benefits early
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to end the expanded benefits more than two months early has not helped Valerie Killman find a job and has only made things tougher for her family and thousands of other Oklahomans, she said.
Oklahomans We’ve Lost: A grandmother who built warplanes, treated prisoners of war and served as mayor
“She was a Rosie the Riveter. You don’t see a lot of African American women as Rosie the Riveter, at least when you’re looking at the television.”
