Federal Food Assistance Will Help Feed Nearly 7 in 10 Kentucky Kids This Summer — We Should Make It Permanent
Child food insecurity, with its harmful short- and long-term consequences, typically increases during summer as kids are unable to eat...
The 2021 Legislative Session Wrap Up: Steps Forward and Backward for Kentuckians’ Opportunities to be Healthy
When Kentucky’s legislature gathers each year, the decisions they make either improve health in Kentucky or worsen it — and not just through legislation related specifically to health care. Kentuckians’...
How the American Rescue Plan Helps Kentuckians
The American Rescue Plan provides relief to Kentuckians facing the health and economic consequences of COVID-19. Through stimulus payments, boosted food, health and housing assistance and more, the plan is...
Banning Food Assistance for Parents Behind on Child Support Is Harmful to Families and Costly to the State
A provision in Senate Bill (SB) 65 would disqualify parents who are behind in making child support payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food assistance). Such a...
Many Kentuckians Face Hunger and Hardship This Thanksgiving. They Need Relief.
This Thanksgiving, some things will be different for just about everyone. Kentuckians will sit down for dinner with fewer family members and friends than they’re used to seeing. Remembrances of...
With Many Forms of Assistance Ending in December, Kentuckians Need Federal Relief Before the New Year
At the same time that coronavirus cases spike and economic hardship deepens for many, a number of critical federal and state assistance programs that have mitigated harm during the COVID-19...
More College Students Can’t Meet Their Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Requiring Federal and State Action
Too many college students in Kentucky returning to school in-person and online during the pandemic face challenges getting adequate food and housing. Meeting such basic needs was already a struggle...
More Kentuckians are Hungry During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Congress Must Do More
Food insecurity – limited or uncertain access to adequate food – is rising rapidly across the nation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The last available, regionally-based analysis suggests...
Policy Changes to Address Police Violence
With the recent police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and David McAtee – in a long history of state-sanctioned violence against Americans who are Black – protests are occurring...
SNAP Participation Has Jumped Due to COVID-19 Economic Crisis, Helping Blunt the Harm
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation in Kentucky has increased by 110,292 people since social distancing began to reduce transmission of COVID-19. This dramatic 22.9% increase since February reflects the...