Senate Budget Maintains Governor’s Deep Budget Cuts, Increases Pension Contributions by Reducing Governor’s Set-Aside Funds
To view in PDF format, click here. The Senate budget maintains the governor’s dramatic proposed cuts of nine percent to...
Research
House Budget Uses Set-Aside Money to Reduce Cuts and Fully Fund Teachers’ Pensions
To view this in PDF form, click here. The House budget reduces proposed cuts to education and selected other areas and provides additional money to fully fund the actuarially required...
Revenue Options that Strengthen the Commonwealth
Kentucky has good options to fairly generate new revenue and put an end to year after year of deep cuts to vital public investments, as outlined in a report by the...
Shifting Health Costs to Employees Has Become Way State Plugs Budget
To view the brief in PDF form, click here. Kentucky has shifted more of the responsibility to pay for health benefits to public sector workers in recent years and then...
Governor Presents Austere Budget that Cuts Public Investments Further and Dedicates More for Pension Liabilities
To view in PDF form, click here. Governor Bevin’s budget proposal includes major cuts to higher education institutions and across other areas of state government where funding has been reduced...
2016 Kentucky Budget Primer
The Budget of the Commonwealth is a financial plan, enacted every two years by Kentucky’s General Assembly, that maps out our state’s investments in education, health, transportation, public safety, human services...
Investing in Kentucky’s Future: A Preview of the 2016-2018 Kentucky State Budget
A comprehensive preview of the upcoming two-year Kentucky state budget confirms both a massive funding gap facing the state for the next two years and a need for reinvestment in...
Facing Challenges with the New GED Test in Kentucky
Facing Challenges with the New GED Test in Kentucky[1.The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy is a non-partisan initiative that conducts research, analysis and education on important policy issues facing the...
Many Kentucky Workers Have Gained Insurance through the Medicaid Expansion, Are at Risk If Program Is Scaled Back
To view this brief in PDF form, click here. Many thousands of Kentuckians who work low wage jobs at restaurants, on construction sites, through temp agencies and at retail stores...
Presentation: The State of Working Kentucky 2015
Despite five consecutive years of job growth, Kentucky’s economy is yet to fully recover from the Great Recession and faces longer-term troubling trends when it comes to job quality. The...