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Senate Budget Increases Rainy Day Fund Paid for by Reducing Spending, Withholds Teacher Pension Contributions Until Benefit Cuts Are Made

The Senate budget increases funding for the Rainy Day Fund by reducing funding for pension contributions for health departments and...

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...

Report

Revenue Options That Strengthen the Commonwealth

Currently, too many tax breaks drain money that is needed to shore up and sustain public schools, higher education and workforce development; teacher and state worker pension systems; preschool, child...

Testimony

Testimony on House Bill 1, Committee Substitute

Testimony given in the House Health and Family Services Committee on February 20, 2020. Chairwoman Moser, members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on...

Report

Governor’s Budget Makes Modest Increases to Education Funding and Selected Other Areas, Raises Small Amount of New Revenue

Governor Beshear’s budget proposal to the General Assembly contains small increases in spending for P-12 education and provides funding for other targeted areas including relief for quasi-governmental organizations facing spiking...

Report

Our Commonwealth: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget

Click here for: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget (PDF). Every two years, the Kentucky General Assembly passes a budget in the form of four separate bills for the...

Report

What Does Kentucky Value? A Preview of the 2020-2022 Budget of the Commonwealth

PDF of the full report. Kentucky’s state budget is the primary policy document of the commonwealth, establishing how the state lives out shared values. Through investments ranging from schools to...

Presentation

Kentucky’s Budget Outlook

In January, the governor will propose and the General Assembly will begin deliberation about a new two-year state budget. The pieces are starting to come together around what the budget...

Report

SNAP Is Good for Kentuckians’ Health

Click for a PDF version of SNAP Is Good for Kentuckians' Health. Everyone knows that food is essential to well-being, but less widely understood is the power of direct food...

Report

Eliminating SNAP Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Increases Inefficiencies and Hunger for Working Families, Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

In September of 2019, KCEP submitted the following comments on a proposed federal rule change to Categorical Eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. You can read a PDF version...

Senate Budget Increases Rainy Day Fund Paid for by Reducing Spending, Withholds Teacher Pension Contributions Until Benefit Cuts Are Made

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

Revenue Options That Strengthen the Commonwealth

Testimony on House Bill 1, Committee Substitute

Governor’s Budget Makes Modest Increases to Education Funding and Selected Other Areas, Raises Small Amount of New Revenue

Our Commonwealth: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget

What Does Kentucky Value? A Preview of the 2020-2022 Budget of the Commonwealth

Kentucky’s Budget Outlook

SNAP Is Good for Kentuckians’ Health

Eliminating SNAP Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility Increases Inefficiencies and Hunger for Working Families, Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

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