State Must Go Beyond FEMA Aid to Adequately Address Housing Need From Eastern Kentucky Floods
The multi-colored houses on Knott County’s Rainbow Lane were reduced to rubble. Raging flood waters tossed and twisted mobile homes...
Kentucky Must Do More to Increase Flood Resilience
The catastrophic flooding that recently hit southeastern Kentucky resulted in the death of 39 people, devastated communities and destroyed many homes and buildings. The problem is not new: Kentucky has...
Most Kentucky Teachers and School Staff Start Year Without Meaningful Raises
Stagnant salaries are contributing to a growing teacher shortage in Kentucky and across the nation, as the school year begins in many areas of the state. An inadequate number of...
Personnel Cabinet Recommends Improving Compensation to Stave off State Workforce Crisis
Kentucky faces a crisis-level shortage of workers in state government. Past legislative actions resulting in poor job quality for public defenders, social workers and all other public service positions mean...
Public Resources Should Stay in Public Schools
All Kentucky children should receive a high-quality education that helps them thrive. Because such an education requires skilled teachers, up-to-date instructional materials, non-academic supports, safe learning environments, strong administrators and...
The 2022 General Assembly Passed More Bills Increasing Incarceration Than Decreasing It, and Failed to Make Other Badly Needed Justice Changes
Kentucky has one of the worst rates of incarceration in the country. Two years after a sharp decline in the Kentucky jail population due to COVID-19 policy-driven releases, the state’s...
Corporate Tax Break Watch: 2022 General Assembly
Last year, the Kentucky General Assembly passed new business subsidies and tax breaks at a cost of well over $1 billion. Especially because the state has large revenue surpluses thanks...
Bill Provides Huge Subsidy to Investment Companies with No Requirement of Rural Investments, Jobs or Return to Communities
House Bill 308, which passed the Kentucky House and may be acted on in the Senate in the session's final days, is a giveaway to out-of-state venture capital funds with...
Pretrial Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly Are a Mixed Bag
Kentucky’s pretrial system — which determines whether a person charged with a crime waits for their day in court behind bars or at home — is arbitrary, unfair and rife...
Charter School Funding Proposal Is Inefficient, Costly and Will Harm Public Education
Legislation introduced in the Kentucky House would create a duplicative, wasteful and unaccountable system for authorizing and funding charter schools that runs counter to the characteristics of an efficient system...