Nearly One in Three Kentucky Workers May Be Out of a Job
Although March’s official unemployment rate was 5.8%, once the unprecedentedly high volume of unemployment insurance claims made over the last...
Despite Some Progress, There Is Still an Urgent Need for Kentucky to Do More to Address the Potential Spread of COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons
Reducing the number of people in jails and prisons is increasingly a focus of state, local and also nationwide efforts to protect public health during the COVID-19 crisis. However, despite...
Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Help Families With Little-To-No Income Make Ends Meet With Emergency Cash Assistance
Kentucky, like all states, receives a fixed annual grant from the federal government called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that can be used to support low-income families with children...
SB 150 Would Cushion the Blow for Unemployed Workers and Our Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing business closures and a drop in consumer spending that is resulting in major, widespread layoffs across every Kentucky community. The state could lose 67,000 jobs...
Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Protect State Economy Through Improved Unemployment Insurance
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked concerns about an economic slowdown resulting from widespread shutdowns in the global economy, and recent cancellations of large events in the United States. Continued economic...
HB 21 Would Protect Kentuckians with Preexisting Conditions If ACA Protections Lost
Nearly 1.8 million Kentuckians have a preexisting health condition that, if it were not for specific protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), could lead to them being denied coverage,...
Testimony on House Bill 1, Committee Substitute
Testimony given in the House Health and Family Services Committee on February 20, 2020. Chairwoman Moser, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on...
House Bill 1 Still Focuses on Punitive Measures that Take Assistance Away
The new version of House Bill 1 introduced in committee today, like the original proposal, contains a number of misguided and punitive measures that create barriers to assistance for Kentuckians...
Bill Capping Insulin Prices Would Help Many Thousands of Kentuckians With Diabetes
House Bill 12 is a much-needed bill to help reduce insulin costs for some of the 442,500 Kentuckians with diabetes. Under the bill, cost sharing for insulin could not exceed...
House Bill 1 Proposes Costly and Unworkable Barriers to Well-Being
House Bill 1 (HB 1) would make sweeping changes to the way we provide medical, food and income assistance to Kentuckians with very low incomes. The bill as introduced adds...