Working with VOICE, we learned that one-quarter of the children who failed the third-grade reading test were English language learners.

We heard from parents of a third grader who had to be prescribed anti-anxiety medication because of the pressure to pass the third grade reading test.

This is the story of VOICE’s formation, and the event that officially launched the organization on February 12, 2012.

I got involved with VOICE because I knew that other ministers had found it to be a great place for their lay leaders to receive training.

VOICE calls for the end of predatory lending in state, opposing lawmakers’ legislation expanding the industry.

A bill that had drawn strong opposition from many church leaders [i.e., VOICE] was vetoed Friday by Gov. Mary Fallin.

VOICE holds a proposed $92.5 million rate hike by OG&E to just $8.9 million, forcing the public utility to refund money to consumers due to an interim hike.

Payday lending reform made big news nationally last week, as press around the country profiled efforts of groups like Arizona PIRG, Center for Responsible Lending, Coalition On Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, ConnPIRG, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Progress Illinois, U.S. PIRG, Voice OKC and other groups.

Leaders from some of Oklahoma's churches, nonprofits and Native American tribes are among those calling for changes to the state's payday loan industry that they say preys on low-income residents and keeps them trapped in a cycle of debt.

VOICE calls for end to overincarceration of mentally ill, low level, nonviolent crimes, and jailing for debt

VOICE leaders will ask the Corporation Commission to reconsider a 25-year old decision on phone rates that was allowed to stand after bribery in the case led to two people going to federal prison.

Oklahoma Bar Association awards VOICE the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award.

Our most important accomplishment has been building an organization that has crossed the lines that usually separate people — race, ethnicity, religious, political, economic, educational.