Refugees, Immigrants Important to Kentucky and the Economy: An Overview of the Research
From the promise to build a wall paid for by tariffs on Mexican imports and uncertainty about what will happen...
Jobs and the Economy
Kentucky Would Have the Second Highest Rate of Job Loss With Healthcare Law Repeal
If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, Kentucky’s rate of job loss would be the second worst of any state with the elimination of an estimated 55,949 jobs or nearly...
Mix of Criminal Justice Bills So Far in 2017 General Assembly
With Kentucky’s growing inmate population and high rates of recidivism, what we need in 2017 is legislation that will make these problems better, not worse. The criminal justice bills filed...
Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Worsen Job Quality, Harm Kentucky Economy
Good-paying jobs like those in construction are the foundation of a healthy middle class and growing economy, and a skilled construction workforce builds the high-quality physical infrastructure necessary for growth....
New Urgency for State Minimum Wage Action
The decision by the Supreme Court of Kentucky invalidating local minimum wage increases means 76,000 working Kentuckians in our two biggest cities now must look to the General Assembly for...
Infographic: Why Kentuckians Will Benefit from New Overtime Rule
An estimated 149,000 salaried Kentucky workers will become entitled to overtime protections under President Obama’s increase to the overtime salary threshold announced in May, according to an analysis from the...
Address Declining Workforce through Job Creation and Work Supports
The administration’s proposal to change Medicaid is framed around increasing workforce participation — making it harder for people to get public benefits, it is assumed, will somehow make them more...
Rural Kentucky Population Continues Decline While Urban and Suburban Areas Grow
Recently released population estimates from the Census show that, over the last five years, Kentucky continues to urbanize. Rural eastern and western counties’ populations have dropped while the “golden triangle”...
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 Lopsided Recovery Continues
Job growth in Kentucky’s recovery continues to be concentrated in a minority of counties located in more prosperous parts of the state while many rural Kentucky counties face employment conditions that...