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Fact Sheet: Need-Based Financial Aid Dollars Being Diverted to General Fund

For years millions of scholarship dollars have been diverted away from Kentucky’s need-based financial aid programs to the General Fund....

Dustin Pugel | February 23, 2016

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Governor’s Budget Proposal Would Worsen College Affordability

Governor Bevin’s budget proposal would not improve — and would even worsen — the state’s college affordability problems. Deep budget cuts to public universities and community colleges are expected to...

Dustin Pugel | February 11, 2016

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Diversion of Lottery Funds Undermines College Affordability

According to law, 55 percent of lottery profits are supposed to pay for need-based scholarships (after $3 million is given to literacy programs). For years, though, millions of scholarship dollars...

Dustin Pugel | January 6, 2016

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A County-by-County Look at the Medicaid Expansion

A total of 425,782 Kentuckians were insured through the Medicaid expansion as of October. By county, between 3.7 and 19.1 percent of the population were covered and a total of...

Dustin Pugel | December 18, 2015

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Eastern Kentucky, Veterans Affairs Workers Benefiting From Raised Minimum Wage for State Workers

More than 800 Kentucky workers have benefited across the Commonwealth because of the executive order raising the minimum wage for state workers and contractors signed last summer by outgoing Gov....

Dustin Pugel | December 7, 2015

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Raising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Spending on Medicaid

Those advocating to scale back Kentucky’s highly-successful Medicaid expansion cite a concern about its cost to the state. One way to help buffer costs would be to raise the minimum...

Dustin Pugel | December 4, 2015

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Child Care Workers’ Pay Is Not Enough

Child care plays a critical role for ensuring families can work and helping children get a healthy start to their developmental process. In Kentucky, it’s also responsible for $810 million...

Dustin Pugel | November 5, 2015

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New Report Shows Kentucky Child Care Assistance Continues to Fall Short

Kentucky’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) has one of the lowest income eligibility thresholds and has among the highest co-pays for parents among state child care subsidy programs, according to...

Dustin Pugel | October 30, 2015

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Report Shows Quality Childcare is Out of Reach for Kentucky Families

A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows child care is a heavy burden on Kentucky families’ pocketbooks, reiterating the need for more child care assistance in the...

Dustin Pugel | October 13, 2015

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