{"id":4840,"date":"2012-02-23T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2012-02-23T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:43:39","slug":"what-is-oklahomas-government-core-and-what-agencies-can-we-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/23\/what-is-oklahomas-government-core-and-what-agencies-can-we-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Oklahoma\u2019s Government \u2018Core,\u2019 and What Agencies Can We Eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4841\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 225px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/franciscojgonzalez\/5139482814\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4841\" title=\"What are &quot;core&quot; services?\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/core-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">francisco.j.gonzalez \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>\u201cModernization,\u201d \u201cstreamlining\u201d and the search for \u201cefficiencies\u201d are code words for cuts, and a lot of Oklahomans would be happier with a lot less government.<\/p><p>Lawmakers echo their constituents\u2019 sentiments. The trick, they say, is to strip the state government to its most fundamental framework.<\/p><p>But what, exactly, are \u201ccore services?\u201d<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Traditionally, education, public safety, health and transportation are considered the core agencies of state government.<\/p><p>And those are the ones that get the most state money \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/budget-hogs\/\">more<\/a> than 80 percent of it. But even these core agencies <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/6.5-billion-oklahoma-budget-deal-calls-for-deeper-cuts-to-education\/article\/3566607\">aren\u2019t immune<\/a> to budget cuts.<\/p><p>Revenues are up, and lawmakers have $168 million more to appropriate this session than they did last year.<\/p><p>Republican lawmakers have made it clear: they want to use the money for an income tax cut, not for a state agency \u201cspending spree,\u201d to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/increased-state-earnings-should-go-to-cutting-personal-income-tax-oklahoma-governor-says\/article\/3651097\/?page=1\">borrow a line<\/a> from Gov. Mary Fallin.<\/p><p>Oklahoma needs a \u201cright-size\u201d state government, Fallin says.<\/p>\n<h4>Your Core<\/h4><p>What does right-size mean to you? What services would your ideal Oklahoma have? When it comes to state government, what&#8217;s really essential \u2014 to you.<\/p><p>Be candid and specific, <strong>we want to know.<\/strong> Sound off in the comments, or hit us up on Twitter @StateImpactOK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cModernization,\u201d \u201cstreamlining\u201d and the search for \u201cefficiencies\u201d are code words for cuts, and a lot of Oklahomans would be happier with a lot less government.Lawmakers echo their constituents\u2019 sentiments. The trick, they say, is to strip the state government to its most fundamental framework.But what, exactly, are \u201ccore services?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16],"tags":[118,53],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}