For the Same Cost as a Half-Point Income Tax Cut, Kentucky Could Meaningfully Reinvest in Public Education
In the 2025 General Assembly, Kentucky lawmakers reduced the individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5%, a cut that...
The BlueOval SK Union Vote Is a Fight for All Kentucky Workers
The hard working men and women at the Ford Blue Oval SK (BOSK) plant in Hardin County will vote on forming a union later this month. Their campaign to join...
Federal Budget and Tax Law Will Worsen Health and Hardship in Kentucky and Provide More Giveaways to the Wealthy
The passage of Congress’s major budget and tax legislation, titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), sets up a frightening future in our commonwealth. The law will take health...
Kentucky Teacher Pensions Are Getting Smaller
Kentucky has fallen to 42nd among states in teacher salaries, and the average district is paying its teachers 20% less than it was before the Great Recession after adjusting for...
Trouble Looms If Congress Passes the Buck to the Kentucky State Budget
Congress is considering huge cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, energy and higher education in an attempt to pay for just a portion of the enormous cost of tax cuts skewed to...
Job Corps Closings Raises Question of What Cuts Are Really All About
The budget axe wielded by DOGE and the Trump administration fell on Job Corps last week, when the administration announced it was closing 99 of the program’s 123 centers across...
Kentuckians Need a New Trade Policy, Not a Chaotic Trade War
Fruit of the Loom apparel plants once dotted the Kentucky landscape, with 11,000 workers at factories in Jamestown, Frankfort, Campbellsville, Franklin, Greensburg, Princeton and Bowling Green. In 1987, the company was...
HB 775 Moves Goalposts Again to Give Legislature Permission for More Tax Cuts
House Bill (HB) 775 in the Kentucky General Assembly would move the goalposts yet again on the state's income tax cut trigger formula. As the costs for these cuts grow,...
Why the Legislature May Change What’s in the SEEK Formula
Senate Bill (SB) 6 in the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly makes the most significant change in the history of the core school funding formula created by the Kentucky Education Reform...
HB 398 Would Weaken Kentucky Worker Health and Safety Protections
For more than 50 years, Kentucky has been one of many states that operate their own program to protect worker health and safety under the federal Occupational Safety and Health...