Federal Payday Lending Rule a Win for Kentuckians
To read KCEP's submitted comments on the rule, click here. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long awaited...
Economic Security
Understanding Pension Contributions in the Final Budget
The issue of pensions for Kentucky public employees and teachers is complex, and the two main pension systems — the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) and the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System...
A Fourth of Kentucky’s Salaried Workforce Will Benefit Under Increase to Overtime Threshold
An estimated 149,000 salaried Kentucky workers will become entitled to overtime protections under President Obama’s increase to the overtime salary threshold announced today, according to an analysis from the Economic...
Kentucky’s Class of 2016 Faces Lingering Slack in Labor Market
Despite improvement, the labor market is still weak for young Kentuckians graduating from high school and college in 2016 according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)....
New Early Childhood Education Report Highlights Benefits of Investment
Too little funding for early childhood care and education (ECCE) in Kentucky means that quality care is too expensive for low-income families, and remains unaffordable for most Kentuckians. A new...
House Budget Does Not Restore Many Crucial Services for Vulnerable Kentuckians
The House budget bill builds on Governor Bevin’s proposed funding for KTRS and KERS and rightly restores his cuts to P-12 and higher education. However, it maintains reductions to other...
Kentucky Weak in Some Aspects of Poverty and Opportunity, Strong in Others
A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) ranks how well the states have addressed the problems facing low-income families through 16 indicators. Kentucky’s results are mixed, with...
Eastern Kentucky, Veterans Affairs Workers Benefiting From Raised Minimum Wage for State Workers
More than 800 Kentucky workers have benefited across the Commonwealth because of the executive order raising the minimum wage for state workers and contractors signed last summer by outgoing Gov....
Raising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Spending on Medicaid
Those advocating to scale back Kentucky’s highly-successful Medicaid expansion cite a concern about its cost to the state. One way to help buffer costs would be to raise the minimum...
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...