Pam Thomas

Making Millionaires Finally Chip in Like the Rest of Us Would Pay for Transformational Public Investments in Kentucky

Kentucky has an opportunity to tackle its infrastructure challenges head on through proposed investments in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan...

Analysis

Local Recovery Monies Should Go to Communities’ Greatest Needs — Kentuckians Can Help Make That Happen

Cities and counties in Kentucky are in the process of receiving the first half of over $1.8 billion in total monies from the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (Local Recovery...

Analysis

The 2021 Legislative Session Criminal Justice Wrap Up: Some Important Wins that Should Be Built on to Achieve Systemic Change

This year, the Kentucky General Assembly took important steps forward in criminal justice with the passage of policies that will reduce incarceration and related harms in modest but important ways...

Op-Ed

Governor Should Veto Expensive, Poorly Targeted Tax Breaks for Remote Workers and Data Centers

The text below was sent as a letter (available here as a PDF) to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear from Jason Bailey, Executive Director of KyPolicy. March 30, 2021 Dear Governor...

Analysis

Kentucky Should Learn from the Past and Not Expand Its Expensive and Ineffective Film Tax Credit

The Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee made a last-minute change to House Bill 249 to bring back a bad idea — making Kentucky's film industry tax credit refundable yet again....

Analysis

The General Assembly Must Resist an Expensive Double-Dip Tax Break and Instead Provide Targeted Aid to Businesses that Really Need Help

As Kentucky recovers from the pandemic and the resulting recession, it is important for state policymakers to invest in families, communities and businesses that need help to get back on...

Analysis

Making Millionaires Finally Chip in Like the Rest of Us Would Pay for Transformational Public Investments in Kentucky

Local Recovery Monies Should Go to Communities’ Greatest Needs — Kentuckians Can Help Make That Happen

The 2021 Legislative Session Criminal Justice Wrap Up: Some Important Wins that Should Be Built on to Achieve Systemic Change

Governor Should Veto Expensive, Poorly Targeted Tax Breaks for Remote Workers and Data Centers

Kentucky Should Learn from the Past and Not Expand Its Expensive and Ineffective Film Tax Credit

The General Assembly Must Resist an Expensive Double-Dip Tax Break and Instead Provide Targeted Aid to Businesses that Really Need Help

Any Action on Proliferating Slot Machines Must Raise Artificially Low Tax Rate

Defeating the Pandemic and Building a Robust Recovery: A Preview of the Budget of the Commonwealth

Kentucky’s Inadequate and Outdated Unemployment Insurance Taxes Need to Be Modernized

COVID-19 Crisis Demonstrates Need for State Improvements to Unemployment Insurance in Kentucky

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