Medicaid Cuts Will Return Next Year Unless the General Assembly Acts
The past month has been volatile for those covered by Medicaid. The budget passed by the General Assembly for fiscal...
Cuts to Basic Cash Assistance Are Hurting Kentucky’s Poorest Kids and Their Parents
The Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (KTAP) is the state’s only program that provides basic cash assistance to children in low-income families. After decades of frozen benefit amounts and income eligibility...
This Fourth of July, Patriotism Includes Honoring Our Immigrant Neighbors
The 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence is a time to consider what it means to be patriotic. Immigration has always been part of our country’s history, and that history is...
More Kentuckians With Disabilities Need Care in Their Community Than the Legislature Has Funded
For tens of thousands of Kentuckians with an intellectual or developmental disability, or who are simply getting older and less able to care for themselves, Medicaid services provided at home...
A 2022 State Law Slashed Unemployment Insurance, Now Kentuckians Are Running Out of Benefits
In 2022, the General Assembly passed House Bill (HB) 4, a sweeping cut to Kentucky’s unemployment insurance program that reduced the number of weeks workers could claim jobless benefits. For...
Growing Death Rate and International Immigration Are Driving Recent Kentucky Population Trends
Over the past five years, Kentucky’s population grew by 2.2% according to new Census data, ranking the commonwealth 23rd among states. A closer look at the components of population growth...
The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Mass Deportation: What’s at Risk in Kentucky
More than 230,000 people in Kentucky, 4% of the state’s population, are immigrants. [efn_note]KyPolicy analysis of 2024 American Community Survey 1-year microdata estimates. Of the 230,000 immigrants in Kentucky, 81,000...
Budget Cuts Will Harm Services That Benefit Children
In the final budget agreement, the legislature passed the deepest cuts in over a decade to the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS), which primarily exists to serve Kentucky’s most...
HB 732 Would Further Undermine Worker Protections and Job Quality
Kentucky already has a growing problem with worker misclassification, in which employers inaccurately and often unlawfully treat employees as independent contractors. These workers are deprived of their rights, protections and...
It Can’t Be All About, Or In, the Base
As the 2027-2028 state budget continues through the legislative process, legislative leaders have repeatedly assured the public that key investments for programs like senior meals, childcare, salary increases, and increased...