Five Big Problems Stand in Way of Adequate State Budget
Cuts now being made to child care that will leave thousands of working parents facing painful choices between jobs and...
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A Win-Win for Kentucky’s Budget and Small Businesses
Legislation requiring internet retailers to collect sales taxes owed to states would aid Kentucky’s depleted budget and end the unfair advantage out-of-state sellers have over Main Street Kentucky businesses. The...
Pension Bill Focuses on Wrong Issues
To hear some in Frankfort these days, Kentucky needs pension reform now, now, now to avoid our own fiscal cliff, sequester, Greek economic meltdown or you name the financial calamity....
Why Regions Fail
Others have rightly jumped on Nicholas Kristof’s December column in the New York Times criticizing the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for children with disabilities. Kristof uses stories of families...
Kentucky Among 10 States with Fastest-Growing Income Inequality
Income gaps widened more in Kentucky than in all but eight other states between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s – and more than all but three other states from...
State Must Face Pension Debt
Over the last several years, much of the focus given to Kentucky’s pension system has been on ways to shift new employees into some version of a 401(k)-style retirement plan....
Health Care Law Will Benefit Kentuckians In Many Ways
The Supreme Court's decision that the health care reform law is constitutional has not brought an end to ideological attacks on the law and calls for its full repeal. Now,...
Given Kentucky’s Budget Downpour, State Should Use Rainy Day Fund
The budget the Senate passed on Thursday would not use any of the $122 million sitting in the state’s rainy day fund to help reduce cuts to essential services. In...
Principles Critical to Effective Tax Reform
In his inaugural address, Gov. Steve Beshear called on the state to build a "foundation for a better tomorrow" by restructuring Kentucky's tax system in his second term. His call...
Persistent Unemployment and Stagnant Wages Mark Labor Day 2011
Coming over two years after the recession officially ended, Labor Day 2011 should be a time to celebrate a return to growth and prosperity. But the reality is much different...