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Letting Enhanced Unemployment Insurance Benefits Expire in a Month Would Harm Families and Weaken Kentucky’s Economy

Since the end of March, when Kentucky began making Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (PUC) payments – the $600 per week enhancement...

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Government Job Losses Are Already Weakening a Modest Return of Private Sector Employment

While new jobs data from May shows a small uptick in employment, Kentucky continues to struggle with unprecedented job loss. And a close look at the data shows troubling signs...

Analysis

Covering All Uninsured Black Kentuckians Is Crucial to Achieving Universal Coverage

Black Kentuckians have had higher rates of infection and death from COVID-19 due to disparities in health caused by historical inequities in wages, the justice system, education, housing, health care...

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Kentucky’s Largest Cities Spend a Quarter of Their Budgets on Police

Amid growing attention to harmful overpolicing of Black communities, many are calling on cities to begin shifting public resources away from policing toward social services, mental health, affordable housing and...

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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...

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Black Kentucky Workers Have Been Disproportionately Laid Off During the COVID-19 Downturn

Black Kentuckians are experiencing job loss at a higher rate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic than white Kentuckians, according to new unemployment insurance data. A long history of...

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COVID-19 Downturn Is Hitting Certain Industries and Regions of the State Especially Hard

Kentucky lost 15.5% of its jobs in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic with industries like hotels, restaurants and manufacturing especially hard hit. Because urban areas tend to have more...

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What’s in the HEROES Act for Kentucky

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the HEROES Act, a bill that would provide the kind of substantial economic relief Kentucky and other states need in the face of...

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Cities and Counties Need Federal Relief to Continue Providing Crucial Services

As with states, local governments in Kentucky and nationwide need significant federal relief if they are to continue providing crucial front line and community services through the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures...

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Medicaid Has Responded Quickly to COVID-19, Congress Should Boost Support

In March and April, Medicaid enrollment in Kentucky grew by 67,216, largely in response to COVID-19. This sudden increase in participation is a good sign that Medicaid, as a health...

Letting Enhanced Unemployment Insurance Benefits Expire in a Month Would Harm Families and Weaken Kentucky’s Economy

Government Job Losses Are Already Weakening a Modest Return of Private Sector Employment

Covering All Uninsured Black Kentuckians Is Crucial to Achieving Universal Coverage

Kentucky’s Largest Cities Spend a Quarter of Their Budgets on Police

Policy Changes to Address Police Violence

Black Kentucky Workers Have Been Disproportionately Laid Off During the COVID-19 Downturn

COVID-19 Downturn Is Hitting Certain Industries and Regions of the State Especially Hard

What’s in the HEROES Act for Kentucky

Cities and Counties Need Federal Relief to Continue Providing Crucial Services

Medicaid Has Responded Quickly to COVID-19, Congress Should Boost Support

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