The graphic below shows that the modest revenue growth recently predicted for the first year of the next budget ($259 million) is not enough to cover even Kentucky’s most basic costs. Among the state’s many needs are: making full payments toward the state pension system, paying for inflation in health care prices, and beginning to restore some of the $1.6 billion in cuts over the last seven years to education, health, human services and other critical areas.
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