Kentucky Recovery Halted in September, Heightening Need for Much More Federal Aid
New jobs numbers for September show Kentucky's economy failed to make badly-needed progress last month as the effects of federal...
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...
Congress Can’t Go Home Without Passing a Strong Aid Package
Congress is set to adjourn at the end of this month, yet its biggest and most urgent piece of business remains undone. With the economy unravelling further from the continuing...
Continued Slow Job Growth in August, Historic Kentucky Jobs Gap Remains
Kentucky had another month of relatively modest job growth in August, and the state continues to face a massive shortage of jobs while signs in the national economy show more...
Statement on Failed Senate “Skinny” Aid Proposal
“The now-failed Senate ‘skinny’ proposal was an even weaker version of the deeply inadequate plan Senate leaders put forward at the end of July. Doing less when we need more...
Meager Executive Action Is No Substitute for Real Congressional Aid
Kentucky's economy is weakening in the face of a resurging pandemic and the end of stimulus aid. Consumer spending is sagging following the July 25 expiration of $600 a week...
Jobs Report Shows Kentucky Economy Stumbling, Heightens Need for Aid
A troubling new jobs report points to a potential slowing of Kentucky’s recovery with the pandemic continuing to rage, increasing the need for much more in federal aid from Congress....
Statement on U.S. Senate COVID Aid Proposal
"The Senate proposal released yesterday provides nowhere near the aid Kentucky and the nation need to get through the resurging COVID-19 economic and health crisis. Its inadequacies will leave Kentucky...
Kentucky’s Senators Must Agree to Adequate Federal Aid for the State to Survive Recession
A couple months ago, some public officials and corporate lobbyists began eagerly calling for states to reopen rapidly as the way to solve the COVID-19 problems of mass unemployment and...
Stimulus Payments Have Propped Up Weak Economy, and Harm Will Grow Without Additional Support
Federal stimulus payments have been critical to Kentuckians making ends meet during the COVID-19 crisis and to spurring a modest return of jobs, new data shows. But unless the U....