{"id":5498,"date":"2012-03-26T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:28:43","slug":"oklahomas-biggest-industry-is-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/26\/oklahomas-biggest-industry-is-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Economically, Oklahoma\u2019s Biggest Industry is Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been looking at Oklahoma\u2019s economy and how specific industries are contributing, and how those contributions have changed over time.<\/p>

The energy industry has a big influence<\/a> on Oklahoma\u2019s policy priorities, but government has the biggest industry share of the state\u2019s economy, data from the U.S. Department of Commerce show.<\/p>

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Government \u2014 as an industry \u2014 comprises about 18.7 percent of Oklahoma\u2019s gross domestic product, which accounts for the total market value of goods and services the state produces.<\/p>\n

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Source: Oklahoma Employment Security Commission Feb. 2012 Economic Indicators Report<\/p>\n

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While government is a big piece of Oklahoma\u2019s economic pie, other industry slices are growing more, data show.<\/p>

From 2009-2010, the biggest contributor to GDP growth was retail trade, the state Employment Security Commission wrote in its February 2012 Economic Indicators<\/em> report.<\/p>

Durable goods manufacturing came in at No. 2, with government trailing at No. 3.<\/p>

Government growth has been especially good to Lawton<\/a>, whose GDP grew significantly more than Oklahoma City\u2019s and Tulsa\u2019s in recent years.<\/p>

Editor’s note: An early version of this post attributed the Economic Indicators report to the state Department of Commerce. The report was prepared by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been looking at Oklahoma\u2019s economy and how specific industries are contributing, and how those contributions have changed over time.The energy industry has a big influence on Oklahoma\u2019s policy priorities, but government has the biggest industry share of the state\u2019s economy, data from the U.S. Department of Commerce show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,15],"tags":[12,340],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498"}],"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=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}