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.
“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.”
Oklahoma is now one of three states where lawsuits have thwarted orders by governors to end expanded, federally funded unemployment aid early.
The event was originally billed as a “community impact forum” about the McGirt Supreme Court decision. But almost everyone who attended was there in protest. The fallout has set Stitt and the tribes further apart.
A panel of judges finds that prosecutors had ‘an extremely weak’ case against Karl Fontenot.
A Tulsa worker claims Gov. Kevin Stitt had no right to end extra benefit programs early.
A Tulsa apartment complex repeatedly sues for late rent and tacks on extra fees. State law offers few protections for renters.
“Just the outpouring of love really shows the impact that he did have.”