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Analysis

IDs Are a Necessity for Successful Reentry

When people who have been incarcerated are released from jail and prison, support services such as housing and mental health...

Carmen Mitchell | October 1, 2020

Analysis

Expired $600 Unemployment Insurance Boost Leading to Hardship Among Jobless Kentuckians

On July 25, the extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits known as Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (PUC) expired for Kentuckians receiving jobless benefits, and the pain of that lost...

Dustin Pugel | August 17, 2020

Analysis

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...

Pam Thomas | May 21, 2020

Analysis

Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Help Kentucky Families Put Food on the Table

As the COVID-19 pandemic leads to layoffs and school closures, and as more people are staying at home to reduce the risk of infection, having enough food will be an...

Jessica Klein | March 27, 2020

Analysis

Kentucky Not Prepared for Next Recession

Amid the spread of COVID-19 and resulting business closures and layoffs, a recession is under way and could be particularly harmful in Kentucky due to the state’s failure to adequately...

Ashley Spalding | March 23, 2020

Analysis

Three Steps to Passing a Better Budget for Kentucky

The budget passed by the House mostly avoids another round of damaging cuts to programs and services that have been common since the Great Recession (with a few important exceptions,...

Pam Thomas | March 12, 2020

Report

House Budget Makes Adjustments Including to Employee Raises, Social Workers and Rainy Day Fund and Contains No New Revenue

The House budget plan includes many of the same priorities that the governor proposed, but contains a different emphasis in a variety of areas. Compared to the governor’s budget, the...

Jason Bailey | March 6, 2020

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Kentucky Classrooms Cannot Afford to Have Resources Siphoned Away by Most Expensive Neo-Voucher Proposal Yet

All Kentucky children – living in poor and wealthy districts, black, brown and white, whose parents didn’t finish high school and that have advanced degrees – deserve a high-quality education...

Anna Baumann | January 29, 2020

Analysis

Slot Machines Multiplying Rapidly Across Kentucky While State Deeply Undertaxes Them

Betting using instant wagering machines, which resemble and operate similar to slot machines, has exploded across Kentucky and thousands more machines will come online in the near future. Yet the...

Pam Thomas | December 3, 2019

Analysis

Further Shift from the Income Tax to the Sales Tax is Bad for Kentucky

In interviews leading up to the 2020 session, legislative leaders have expressed their desire to continue down the path of reducing income taxes and paying for the reductions by relying...

Pam Thomas | June 26, 2019

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