This issue brief and the fact sheets were produced for the Public Policy Department of the Community Action Project of Tulsa County under the direction of David Blatt, then Director of Policy at CAP. 

In the fall of 2004, faced with a severe fiscal crisis, Oklahoma voters approved three controversial revenue-raising measures that offered the promise of increasing state funding for key public services: a state lottery, gaming compacts, and tobacco tax increases. This issue brief and the three fact sheets examine the impact of those new revenues.