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Tracking the Economic Fallout of COVID-19 in Kentucky

Social distancing policies and practices are protecting lives in Kentucky. In the short term, that means record job losses and...

Dustin Pugel | January 15, 2021

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Analysis

New Federal Relief Package Is a Short-Term Lifeline, But More Aid Is Needed

Congress has finally agreed to a new relief package that temporarily extends much-needed support to a weak economy and struggling families. It includes expanded and continued emergency unemployment benefits, rental...

Jason Bailey and Dustin Pugel | December 21, 2020

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Defeating the Pandemic and Building a Robust Recovery: A Preview of the Budget of the Commonwealth

In the 2021 short legislative session, the Kentucky General Assembly will be tasked with crafting a new state budget for 2022. In addition to protecting Kentucky’s existing critical services, there...

Dustin Pugel, Ashley Spalding, Pam Thomas and Anna Baumann | December 14, 2020

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Tracking SNAP in Kentucky

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a vital source of assistance that helps put food on the table for hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians. As of 2018, in Kentucky...

Dustin Pugel | December 11, 2020

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COVID-19 Crisis Demonstrates Need for State Improvements to Unemployment Insurance in Kentucky

Unemployment insurance (UI) is one of the most effective programs available to help laid-off workers meet their basic needs and allow economies to bounce back during downturns. As a partial...

Dustin Pugel, Jason Bailey and Pam Thomas | November 17, 2020

Analysis

New Employment Data Shows Hardship Across the Commonwealth and for Low-Wage Earners

Amidst a new surge of COVID-19 cases, recent data shows that employment in virtually all Kentucky counties remained severely depressed in September. When looking at the economic recovery by income...

Dustin Pugel | October 23, 2020

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Kentucky Lives and Livelihoods Are on the Line with Supreme Court Challenge to ACA

Health insurance coverage for over half a million Kentuckians, and the protections for 2 million Kentuckians with preexisting conditions, will once again be on the line when the U.S. Supreme...

Dustin Pugel | October 20, 2020

Analysis

Kentucky Has Much to Lose if Supreme Court Strikes Down the Affordable Care Act

Kentucky has greatly benefitted from the 2010 passage of the federal Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act (ACA). Thanks to the ACA, we were among states with the largest declines...

Dustin Pugel | October 14, 2020

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How Kentucky Should Spend Remaining Coronavirus Relief Fund Monies

The federal government provided $1.6 billion in Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) monies to the state of Kentucky as part of the CARES Act that passed Congress on March 27th. As...

Jason Bailey, Pam Thomas and Dustin Pugel | September 28, 2020

Analysis

Black Kentucky Workers Are More Likely To Have Been Laid Off in the Pandemic, and Less Likely To Have Been Hired Since

Black Kentuckians are experiencing job loss at a higher rate than white Kentuckians in the COVID-19 pandemic. A long history of racist policies ranging from slavery and Jim Crow to...

Dustin Pugel | September 11, 2020

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