Shifting Health Costs to Employees Has Become Way State Plugs Budget
To view the brief in PDF form, click here. Kentucky has shifted more of the responsibility to pay for health...
Governor Presents Austere Budget that Cuts Public Investments Further and Dedicates More for Pension Liabilities
To view in PDF form, click here. Governor Bevin’s budget proposal includes major cuts to higher education institutions and across other areas of state government where funding has been reduced...
Three Questions About the Governor’s Budget
Next week, Gov. Matt Bevin will submit his first budget proposal to the Kentucky General Assembly. By a quirk in our state constitution, this tremendous responsibility will come only seven...
Statement on Dismantling of Kynect
“The repeal of Kynect would be a big step backward on access to healthcare in Kentucky,” Jason Bailey, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, said. “It will create an...
Who Stands to Benefit from Lexington’s New Minimum Wage
An estimated 31,300 workers in Lexington who would otherwise make less than $10.10 an hour will have higher wages once the newly-passed minimum wage ordinance -- the second such local...
8 Reasons Kentucky Shouldn’t DisKynect
Kynect, the state's health insurance marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act, is widely viewed as a national model for its functionality and success in getting people signed up for...
Many Kentucky Workers Have Gained Insurance through the Medicaid Expansion, Are at Risk If Program Is Scaled Back
To view this brief in PDF form, click here. Many thousands of Kentuckians who work low wage jobs at restaurants, on construction sites, through temp agencies and at retail stores...
Close Look at Employment Numbers Shows Need for More Jobs
There's a big inconsistency between Kentucky's declining unemployment rate -- now at five percent, the lowest level since 2001 -- and the fact we still have many fewer people employed...
Even Big Cuts to New Teachers’ Pensions Would Do Little to Address System’s Funding Challenge
Even if the state were to massively cut pension benefits for new teachers, it wouldn’t result in meaningful savings to the teachers’ retirement system over the 30 year period needed...
Presentation: The State of Working Kentucky 2015
Despite five consecutive years of job growth, Kentucky’s economy is yet to fully recover from the Great Recession and faces longer-term troubling trends when it comes to job quality. The...