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Dustin Pugel

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...

Dustin Pugel | October 23, 2020

Op-Ed

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

Report

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

Analysis

Kentucky Must Continue Momentum Reducing Jail and Prison Population

As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 pandemic, jails and prisons have been among the top “hotspots” for COVID-19 at the same time incarcerated individuals are among the...

Ashley Spalding, Dustin Pugel, Pam Thomas and Carmen Mitchell | September 3, 2020

Analysis

Over 100,000 More Kentucky Students Can Still Claim Pandemic Grocery Money

Of the 605,770 Kentucky students eligible for the grocery money program known as Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT), 106,514, or 17.6% have yet to claim it. They have until August...

Dustin Pugel | August 21, 2020

Analysis

Expired $600 Unemployment Insurance Boost Leading to Hardship Among Jobless Kentuckians

On July 25, the extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits known as Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (PUC) expired for Kentuckians receiving jobless benefits, and the pain of that lost...

Dustin Pugel | August 17, 2020

Analysis

Why the Senate COVID Proposal Fails to Meet Kentucky’s Economic Needs

The new Senate aid proposal, known as the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability and Schools (HEALS) Act, falls far short of the breadth and depth of aid needed to fight the...

Dustin Pugel | July 29, 2020

Analysis

With Looming Expiration of Federal Aid, 1 in 4 Renting Kentuckians Might Not Make Next Month’s Rent

According to new weekly Census data, 26.1% of all Kentuckians who rent their homes have no confidence or only slight confidence that they will be able to pay next month’s...

Dustin Pugel | July 8, 2020

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