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- Tracking SNAP in Kentucky
- New Federal Relief Package Is a Short-Term Lifeline, But More Aid Is Needed
- New Employment Data Shows Hardship Across the Commonwealth and for Low-Wage Earners
- Kentucky Recovery Halted in September, Heightening Need for Much More Federal Aid
- IDs Are a Necessity for Successful Reentry
- Continued Slow Job Growth in August, Historic Kentucky Jobs Gap Remains
- Black Kentucky Workers Are More Likely To Have Been Laid Off in the Pandemic, and Less Likely To Have Been Hired Since
- More College Students Can’t Meet Their Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Requiring Federal and State Action
- Kentucky Must Continue Momentum Reducing Jail and Prison Population
- Federal Relief Shored Up Kentucky’s Budget, but New Projections Raise Big Concerns About Remainder of Year
- Jobs Report Shows Kentucky Economy Stumbling, Heightens Need for Aid
- Over 100,000 More Kentucky Students Can Still Claim Pandemic Grocery Money
- Expired $600 Unemployment Insurance Boost Leading to Hardship Among Jobless Kentuckians
- Why the Senate COVID Proposal Fails to Meet Kentucky’s Economic Needs
- More Kentuckians are Hungry During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Congress Must Do More
- Stimulus Payments Have Propped Up Weak Economy, and Harm Will Grow Without Additional Support
- Half of Kentuckians Report Losing Household Employment Income, and Sources They’re Relying on Are Running Out
- With Looming Expiration of Federal Aid, 1 in 4 Renting Kentuckians Might Not Make Next Month’s Rent
- Letting Enhanced Unemployment Insurance Benefits Expire in a Month Would Harm Families and Weaken Kentucky’s Economy
- Government Job Losses Are Already Weakening a Modest Return of Private Sector Employment
- Covering All Uninsured Black Kentuckians Is Crucial to Achieving Universal Coverage
- Kentucky’s Largest Cities Spend a Quarter of Their Budgets on Police
- Policy Changes to Address Police Violence
- COVID-19 Downturn Is Hitting Certain Industries and Regions of the State Especially Hard
- What’s in the HEROES Act for Kentucky
- Cities and Counties Need Federal Relief to Continue Providing Crucial Services
- Medicaid Has Responded Quickly to COVID-19, Congress Should Boost Support
- SNAP Participation Has Jumped Due to COVID-19 Economic Crisis, Helping Blunt the Harm
- To Protect Kentuckians from COVID-19, State Needs to Build on Already Significant Declines in Incarceration
- New Forecast Shows Collapse in State Tax Revenues from COVID-19
- Nearly One in Three Kentucky Workers May Be Out of a Job
- 228,300 Kentuckians Have Likely Lost Health Coverage Since the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Who Are Kentucky’s Essential Workers on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Kentucky’s Budget Faces Trouble Without More Federal Aid
- What’s in the CARES Act for Kentucky
- Despite Some Progress, There Is Still an Urgent Need for Kentucky to Do More to Address the Potential Spread of COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons
- Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Help Families With Little-To-No Income Make Ends Meet With Emergency Cash Assistance
- Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Help Kentucky Families Put Food on the Table
- Kentucky Not Prepared for Next Recession
- Policies Addressing Kentucky’s Underlying Health Challenges Could Better Prepare Us for Public Health Crises, Like COVID-19
- SB 1 Would Harm Kentucky Kids, Economy
- HB 424’s Reformed Felony Threshold Would Reduce Incarceration for Low-Level Theft
- Paid Sick Leave Legislation Would Protect Health and Promote Economic Security
- Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Inadequate Rainy Day Fund Heightens Need for Federal Aid and More State Revenue
- Kentucky Response to COVID-19: Protect State Economy Through Improved Unemployment Insurance
- Three Steps to Passing a Better Budget for Kentucky
- A Move from Local Occupational Taxes to Sales Taxes Would Be a Regressive Tax Shift
- HB 21 Would Protect Kentuckians with Preexisting Conditions If ACA Protections Lost
- Bipartisan Interest in Tax Break Accountability
- Report Shows Importance of Expungement to Kentuckians’ Health – House Bill 327 Would Be Step Forward
- State Policy Decisions Hinder Kentucky’s Readiness for Coronavirus
- House Bill 1 Still Focuses on Punitive Measures that Take Assistance Away
- House Bill 413 Creates Greater Accountability and Transparency for Tax Expenditures
- Tax Plan Would Fix Kentucky’s Budget Challenges by Addressing Upside Down Tax Code
- Bill Capping Insulin Prices Would Help Many Thousands of Kentuckians With Diabetes
- House Bill 1 Proposes Costly and Unworkable Barriers to Well-Being
- Understanding the Quasi Pension Funding Issue
- Bill Supports Public Safety and Protects Children From Automatically Being Tried as Adults
- Kentucky Classrooms Cannot Afford to Have Resources Siphoned Away by Most Expensive Neo-Voucher Proposal Yet
- Another Year of Modest Job Growth in Kentucky
- Tax Cuts Causing the Worst Revenue Projections Since Consensus Forecasting Began
- Child Care Assistance Is a Great Investment for Kentucky, but Remains Inadequate
- Harsh Measure Threatens Kentucky’s Families and Finances
- What the Finally-Released Actuarial Analysis Tells Us About So-Called Pension Reform
- Less to Sweep from Health Fund in Next Budget
- With Proposed Barriers to Medicaid Gone, Kentucky Should Pursue Other Ways to Support Kentuckians’ Health
- Forecast Confirms Weak Revenue Growth for Next Budget
- Kentucky’s Youngest Kids Are Losing Health Coverage
- Slot Machines Multiplying Rapidly Across Kentucky While State Deeply Undertaxes Them
- Increased Funding Is Improving Kentucky’s Pension Plans
- Policy Choices Pushing Kentucky’s Corporate Taxes Down
- Proposed USDA Rule Would Limit Food for Kids in Kentucky, at Home and in School
- Momentum Growing Among States to Abandon Barriers to Medicaid Coverage
- Half of Medicaid-Eligible Kentuckians Were Unaware of New Barriers to Health Coverage, According to Study
- Family First Is an Opportunity to Expand “2 Generation” Approaches to Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in Kentucky
- Kentucky’s Changing Labor Force Participation, Explained
- Impact of Cuts to Public Higher Education in Kentucky Continues as Students Begin Classes
- Troubling Revenue Picture Emerges Due to Recent Tax Cuts
- Kentucky Kids Head Back to School Amid Historically Deep Funding Cuts
- Lopsided Recovery Continues to Leave Out Eastern Part of State
- Kentucky’s History With Association Health Plans Shows They Undermine Health Coverage Protections
- Many of the Quasi Employees Are Middle Age and Mid-Career
- Three Ways the New Quasi Alternative Is Better than the Governor’s Proposal
- Year End Revenues Are Above Projections, But Concerns Remain for the Future
- Kentucky Public Universities and Community Colleges Serving More Low-Income Students and Students of Color Receive No Performance Funds in 2020
- Average Kentucky Worker’s Paycheck Not Yet Benefitting from Growing Economy
- Manufacturing Job Growth Has Slowed in Kentucky Since Passage of “Right-To-Work”
- Further Shift from the Income Tax to the Sales Tax is Bad for Kentucky
- Change to Poverty Measure Would Mean Hardship for Many Kentuckians
- Record-Breaking Failure to Raise the Minimum Wage Is Holding Back Kentucky
- Systemic Barriers Continue to Hold Back Wages and Employment for Kentuckians of Color
- Taxing Betting Uniformly Would Generate Much-Needed General Fund Revenue
- Pension Proposal Steers Quasi-Governmental Organizations Toward Breaking Promise to Current Employees
- Ways Forward for the Commonwealth
- Urban Growth in Kentucky Continued in 2018
- Kentucky’s Gains in Health Coverage Are Resilient Despite Sustained Attacks on Public Insurance
- 2019 Session Tax Round Up – More Special Interest Tax Cuts Means Less To Invest
- Senate Pension Bill Also Breaks Inviolable Contract
- Pension Bill for Quasis Jeopardizes Workers and Retirees, Increases State Costs Without Way to Pay
- Expungement Bill Is a Highlight, But Deeper Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform Missing from Session
- Bank Tax Break Passed This Session Was Not What Proponents Claimed
- Breaking Inviolable Contract for Quasi-Governmental Employees Would Result in Massive Loss of Benefits
- Conference Committee Agrees to Substantial New Tax Breaks in the “Tax Clean-Up Bill” – Digging Our Revenue Hole Even Deeper
- Pension Bill Breaks Inviolable Contract, Shifts Contributions from Underfunded Plan
- SB 57 an Important Step to Expand Felony Expungement
- Big Cut to Bank Taxes Is Not Cleanup
- Private School Tax Credit Math Does Not Add Up
- HB 3: Taking Financial Help from Kentucky’s Kids, Including Those Raised by Grandparents
- Kentucky Must Not Join Dangerous Threat to Constitution
- HB 3: Taking Away Benefits From Poor Kentuckians Would Be Extremely Costly to State
- HB 3 Proposes Massive, Expensive and Ineffective Bureaucracy That Will Hurt Kentucky Families and Open State to Legal Problems
- Tax “Clean-Up” Bill Includes More Giveaways
- New Bills Would Slash Unemployment Insurance and Leave Kentuckians Stranded
- Pregnancy Accommodations Would Benefit Kentucky Families and Businesses
- Bill Provides Huge Subsidy to Investment Companies and Does Not Require Return to Communities
- Getting Real About Base Funding for K-12 Schools
- New Tax Break Would Subsidize Private Schools at the Expense of Kentucky Public Schools
- Legislature Considering New Tax Subsidy for Private Schools Despite Backdrop of Public School Cuts
- Past Underfunding of Pensions Hurts in Multiple Ways
- Kentucky Has Much to Learn from Other States on Criminal Justice Reform
- Government Shutdown Could Leave Nearly 600,000 Kentuckians Without Food Assistance
- Impending Loss of Federal Toll Credits Makes Kentucky’s Transportation Funding Hole Even Deeper
- State Should Move Forward With Recommendations to Shed Light on Tax Expenditures
- Pension Bills Cut Benefits, Will Have Minimal Impact on System Health
- Warning Against Kentucky’s Barriers to Medicaid From Arkansas
- Reenacting Pension Bill Would Cause More Harm
- Repealing Combined Reporting in Kentucky Would Re-Open a Major Tax Loophole for Big Corporations
- Reinstated SNAP Time Limit Has Led to Thousands Without Food Assistance
- Falling Medicaid Enrollment Further Counters the Need for Cuts
- Public Charge Rule Changes Would Hurt Kentucky Immigrants and Their Families
- ‘Sky is Falling’ Pension Story Not Backed by Facts
- Growing Number of Kentucky Counties Have More Available Workers Than Jobs
- Kentucky Is 4th Worst in the Nation for Student Loan Default
- Medicaid Expansion Especially Important for Rural Kentuckians
- Manageable Medicaid “Shortfall” Was Created in Budget the Governor Originally Proposed
- Planned Public Charge Rule Changes Would Harm Kentucky Immigrants and Their Families
- Commenters on Kentucky’s Proposed Barriers to Medicaid Coverage Are Over 20 to 1 Against Re-approval
- Financial Challenges Continue for Many Kentucky College Students
- State Revenues Continue to Lag as a Share of the Economy and Recent Tax Changes Will Likely Worsen This Trend
- As Kids Head Back to School, Districts Have Even Fewer Resources Than Previous Years
- Voters’ Overwhelming Rejection of “Right to Work” Law Reflects Its Harm to Workers
- New Report Shows Vast Income Inequality Across Kentucky
- Year End Revenues Below Original Projections and Concerns Going Forward
- Ending Benefits for Medicaid is Unnecessary and Harmful
- Performance Funding for Higher Ed Already Beginning to Disadvantage Some Schools
- Rural Kentucky Population Continues to Shrink While Urban Counties Grow
- Billions Set Aside for Retiree Health Contradict Crisis Story
- Supreme Court Ruling on Internet Retailers a Positive Step for Kentucky’s Budget
- Kentucky Tax Shift Going Into Effect
- Medicaid Boosts Kentucky’s Economy, New Barriers to Coverage Will Hold Us Back
- Farm Bill Would Take Food Assistance from Some Older Kentuckians
- SNAP Works for Kentucky’s Children, Farm Bill Threatens that Success
- Putting Kentucky’s Employment Situation in Context
- Farm Bill Proposal Would Worsen Poverty in Kentucky
- New Tax Law Shifts from the Wealthy to Kentuckians of Color and Economically Distressed Regions of State
- What Happened With Criminal Justice This Session
- Final Budget and Tax Changes Spend More, Generate Less
- What Are Taxes For?
- Film Industry Tax Breaks Continue to Proliferate Despite Program Suspension
- Quality and Equity of P-12 Education Will Continue to Decline with Funding in HB 200
- A Chance to Get a Better Budget and Tax Plan
- What’s in the Budget Agreement for Health Care and What’s Not?
- Budget Cuts Will Impact College Affordability, Quality and Equity in Kentucky
- House Bill 366 Represents a Tax Shift Away from the Wealthy to Low- and Middle-Income Kentuckians
- Last Minute Pension Bill Ends Protections for New Teachers, Cuts Benefits
- House Bill 6 Shortchanges Kentucky by Giving Huge Subsidies to Fund Managers, Banks and Insurance Companies
- Amendment to SB 231 Could Reduce College Affordability for Low-Income KEES Recipients
- HB 609 Would Provide Much-Needed Revenue for Roads in Kentucky Counties, Cities
- Republican Proposals to End Tax Breaks Could Create a Better Budget
- House Budget Relies Heavily on Monies from Kentucky Employees’ Health Plan
- New Short-Term Individual Insurance Plans Would Raise Premiums and Number of Uninsured Kentuckians
- Pension Bill Doesn’t Save Money for KRS, Revised Teacher COLA Cut Changed Little
- Four Main Ways House Criminal Justice Bill Creates Savings
- Governor’s Proposed Additional Investment in Justice System Still Limited
- Reinstating Time Limits for Food Assistance Will Hurt Low-Income Kentuckians and Local Economies
- Guest Blog: HB 2 Will Take Money Out of Injured Workers’ Pockets
- What’s In the Senate Pension Bill
- KEES Bill Could Worsen College Affordability for Low-Income Kentuckians
- Switching to 401ks Is a Lose-Lose
- Gang Bill Unproven and Costly Approach
- Kentucky Better Budget Builder
- Bill Would Limit Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Cut Them Off Much Sooner
- Significant Cuts Proposed for PVA Offices Will Harm Property Tax Revenues Statewide
- Four New Ways Kentuckians Will Lose Medicaid
- Adequate Fund Balances are Crucial for Prudent School District Management and Should Not be Relied Upon to Make Up for State Funding Cuts
- Governor’s Budget Cuts Per-Student SEEK Funding
- More Detail About 70 Programs Defunded in Governor’s Budget Proposal
- Medicaid Work Requirement Is Misguided and Harmful
- School Voucher Tax Break Proposals Further Threaten Funding for Public Education
- Marketplace Signups Robust and Would Likely Be Stronger Without Barriers
- New 2018 Cuts Hit Some Departments Harder Than Others
- Massive New Federal Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Should Be a Resource for Kentucky’s Budget
- Some Federal Lawmakers Want to Use New Tax Cuts for the Wealthy as Cause to Undermine Basic Supports for Kentucky Families
- Passage of the Dream Act Would Benefit Kentucky
- New Tax Expenditure Report Obscures Growing Costs
- Year-End Results Show Progress Made on Pensions in Last Budget
- Plan to Front-Load Pension Payments Would Create Crisis in Next Budget
- Senate Tax Plan Harms Low- and Middle-Income Kentuckians to Pay for Giveaways to Those at the Top
- How Federal Tax Proposals Threaten Investments in Kentucky’s Congressional Districts
- Analysis Shows Pension Bill Adds Huge New Costs for Teachers’ Plan
- 5 Things to Watch for in the House Federal Tax Plan
- Congressional Plan to Cut Taxes Now and Programs Later Would Harm Kentuckians
- Additional Contribution for Retiree Health Benefits Is an Unnecessary Wage Cut
- Supplemental Security Income is the “Assistance of Last Resort” for Kentucky’s Most Vulnerable
- Film Industry Tax Credits are Growing Rapidly and Pose a Significant Threat to State Revenues
- Pension Framework Makes Harsh Benefit Cuts, Adds Costs Without New Revenue
- Report Shows Kentucky’s Preschool and Kindergarten Programs Effective, Need Greater Investment
- Group Provides Insight Into Growth of Kentucky’s Inmate Population
- Social Security Disability Insurance Works for Vulnerable Kentuckians
- Pension Legislation Should Solve Real Problems and Avoid Harmful Consequences
- Level Dollar Approach Shifts Enormous Burden to Upcoming Budget
- Federal Tax Cut Framework Is Designed for Millionaires
- 5 Things Kentuckians Need to Know About Federal Budgets Being Voted on This Week
- Kentucky Will Face Transition Costs If It Switches to 401ks
- Medicaid Works for Kentucky
- Kentucky Still Among the Worst for Student Loan Default
- Decline of Private Sector Defined Benefit Plans No Model for Public Plans
- Cassidy-Graham Bill is Latest Attempt to Unravel Kentucky’s Health Care Gains
- Small Tax Breaks’ Costs Add Up Over Time
- Proposed 401ks Cost More Than Kentucky’s Existing Pension Plans
- Lack of Jobs and Wage Growth Still Hurts Kentuckians this Labor Day
- Clawback of Cost of Living Adjustments Would Be Major Hit to Retiree Checks
- PFM Report Uses Exaggerated Claims to Justify Harsh, Counterproductive Cuts
- Pell Grant Cuts Would Reduce College Access and Economic Opportunity in Kentucky
- Five Things to Keep in Mind as College Students Head Back to School
- School Funding Challenges Remain as Students Return to Classrooms
- Ending Cost Sharing Reduction Payments is a Lose-Lose for Kentucky
- Too Many Community College Students Are Hungry or Homeless
- Kentuckians Are Concerned About Proposed Changes to Medicaid
- How Cuts to Federal Non-Defense Discretionary Funding Would Impact Kentucky
- Four Added Concerns About Kentucky’s Fiscal Outlook
- Continuing General Fund Erosion Is More Evidence of the Need to Clean Up Tax Code
- Trump Tax Plan Would Be a Windfall for Only the Wealthiest Kentuckians
- What’s at Stake in U.S. House Budget by Kentucky Congressional District
- Critical Investments in Kentuckians at Risk in U.S. House Budget
- Revised Senate Health Repeal Has Same Harmful Impacts
- Year-End Revenue Results Underscore Need for Right Actions on Tax Reform
- New Study Provides More Evidence Harsher Penalties Are Not Solution to State’s Drug Problems
- Kentucky Has the Most to Lose from Senate Health Care Repeal Bill
- Senate Health Care Repeal Bill a Drastic Step Backward for Kentucky’s Health
- Medicaid Cuts Would Harm Kentucky’s Kids
- Kentucky Public Pensions Are Not Expensive — If You Fund Them
- Kentucky’s State Budget Unable to Compensate for Massive Cuts in Trump Budget
- Troubling Hints About Direction for Tax Reform
- Kansas’ Experiment Yields Valuable Lessons for Kentucky
- Kentuckians Who Lose Coverage from Medicaid Cuts Won’t Have Other Options
- Pension Benefits Inject $3.4 Billion into the Economies of Kentucky Counties
- The Health Care Repeal Bill Would Double What Kentucky Must Pay for Medicaid Expansion
- Trump Budget Makes It Harder for Low-Income Kentuckians to Climb Economic Ladder
- What Combined Federal Cuts to Medicaid Would Mean for Kentucky
- CBO Shows 23 Million Would Lose Coverage Under Health Care Repeal Bill
- Food Assistance Cuts in Trump Budget Would Have a Devastating Impact on Kentucky
- What Trump Budget Proposal Would Mean for Kentucky
- Angel Investor Tax Credit Program is an Overly-Generous Subsidy for Wealthy Investors
- Health Care Repeal Bill Would Squeeze In-Home Health Services for Elderly & Disabled Kentuckians
- Report on County Jails Shows Why We Need Additional Criminal Justice Reforms
- Any Way You Slice It, A Shift To Consumption Taxes Will Hurt Kentucky
- Critical Poverty-Reducing Programs at Risk in Upcoming Trump Budget
- Kentucky Has Nation’s Most Rural Medicaid Expansion Enrollees, and AHCA Would Take That Away
- Study of Indiana’s Medicaid Program a Warning Against Kentucky’s Plans to Charge Premiums
- Kentucky Moms Deserve Better
- Proposed Health Care Changes Would Hurt Kentucky’s Moms
- Job Recovery for Some Kentucky Counties, Second Recession for Others
- Important Federal Investments in Kentucky’s Coal Communities at Risk
- The Many Harms of the American Health Care Act for Kentucky
- New Amendment to Healthcare Repeal Bill Threatens Kentuckians with Pre-existing Conditions
- A County-by-County Look at Kentucky’s Dramatic Health Coverage Gains
- 2017 Session a Step Backward for Kentucky Workers
- What Are Taxes For?
- Kentucky’s ACA Health Insurance Marketplace Is Not Falling Apart
- Criminal Justice Bills Passed This Session
- Tuition Increase Ceilings Announced
- New Version of Drug Bill Would Have Serious Consequences for Addicts and Criminal Justice System
- Eastern Kentucky Would Be Hardest Hit Place in Country by Job Loss from ACA Repeal, Report Says
- A County-by-County Look at Kentucky’s Dramatic Drop in Uninsured
- Getting Rid of Essential Health Benefits Means Less Coverage, More Costs for Kentuckians
- What You Need to Know About the AHCA’s Harmful Effects on Kentucky
- SNAP Works and Shows Where Economic Progress Still Needed
- Kentuckians’ Marketplace Health Care Costs Would Rise $1,804 Under AHCA
- House Health Repeal Would Shift $16 Billion in Costs to the Kentucky State Budget
- Trump Budget Eliminations Would Be Major Hit to Kentucky
- Tiny Fraction of Wealthiest Kentuckians Gain from Tax Cuts in Health Repeal
- New Reports Highlight Kentucky’s Gains in Care and Health
- Charter School Legislation Passes, But Questions and Concerns Remain About Funding
- Funding and Accountability Concerns Still Apply to Senate Version of Charter Bill
- More Federal Budget Cuts Would Especially Harm Kentucky
- What’s at Stake in ACA Repeal by Kentucky Congressional District
- House Health Repeal Plan Would Worsen Kentucky’s Drug Problems
- Coverage for Kentucky Seniors Threatened by House Plan
- House Plan Unwinds Coverage Gains and Makes Harmful Changes to Medicaid Program
- Big Funding Concerns with Amended Charter Bill
- Tax Credit Doesn’t Help Kentucky Schools and Kids
- Undocumented Immigrants Contribute $37 Million Toward Investments in Kentucky Each Year
- Layers of Concern in Funding for Charter Schools
- Gang Bill Costly and Missing Effective Approaches to Supporting Youth
- Worker Protections Undermined by SB 237
- Too Many Kentuckians Remain Underemployed
- Virtual Schools Problematic in Charter Bill
- Funding Concerns Persist in New Charter Bill
- The Math Behind Ed Choice Tax Credit Fails Many Tests
- New Tax Breaks Are Not Free
- Questions and Answers on Performance Funding for Higher Education
- How Would the Performance Funding Proposal Impact Low-Income, Minority and Academically Underprepared Students?
- Kentucky’s Experience with High Risk Pool Shows Dangers of ACA Repeal
- Many Kentuckians Work in Bad Jobs
- What’s In the Criminal Justice Reform Bill, and What’s Not
- Harsher Criminal Penalties Not a Proven Way to Address Heroin Problem
- Not Yet to Full Economic Recovery
- No Need to Overinflate Pension Liabilities
- Will More Revenue from Tax Reform Be Real and Sustaining?
- Low Wages at Bottom Demonstrate Need for Policies that Boost Earnings
- Kentucky Should Reject Dangerous Call to Reopen Constitution
- Would Charter School Proposal Negatively Impact Funding of Kentucky’s Existing Public Schools?
- Refugees, Immigrants Important to Kentucky and the Economy: An Overview of the Research
- Targeted Refugee Groups Make Important Contributions to Kentucky’s Communities and Economy
- Kentucky Would Have the Second Highest Rate of Job Loss With Healthcare Law Repeal
- 130,000 Kentuckians in Individual Market Would Lose Coverage from Health Reform Repeal
- Mix of Criminal Justice Bills So Far in 2017 General Assembly
- A County-by-County Look at Kentuckians at Risk if Congress Rolls Back Health Coverage
- Job Growth Claims from Right to Work Not Backed by Evidence
- Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Worsen Job Quality, Harm Kentucky Economy
- How Criminal Justice Reform Would Help Kentucky Kids
- Six Protections Kentuckians Will Lose if ACA Is Repealed
- Those at the Top Would Get More Tax Breaks, Investments Would Suffer from Shift to Consumption Taxes
- Number of Uninsured Kentuckians Would Triple Under a Partial Health Reform Repeal
- Kentucky Should Not Follow Kansas Down the Income Tax Cutting Road
- Kentucky’s Repeat Offender Laws Need Reform
- Social Security Keeps Kentuckians Out of Poverty and Boosts Local Economies
- Key Mechanism for Growing Middle Class in Kentucky Is Still Broken
- Kentucky’s Performance Funding Design Should Work to Prevent Unintended Consequences Reported in Neighboring States
- Closing Tax Breaks at the Top Will Generate Needed Revenue, Not Cause Millionaire Tax Flight
- New Urgency for State Minimum Wage Action
- Dealing with the Risks of Public-Private Partnerships
- SNAP Works for Kentucky’s Children
- Comments to Washington on Proposed Medicaid Changes were 9 to 1 Against
- Roundup on Kentucky’s Criminal Justice Reform Needs and Options
- Promising Reform Options Being Considered by Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council
- Infographic: Why Kentuckians Will Benefit from New Overtime Rule
- Department of Labor Rule Clears the Way for State Sponsored Retirement Plan for Private Sector Workers
- New Data Shows Kentucky Has Third-Highest Student Loan Default Rate for Second Consecutive Year
- Corrections Data Shows Positive Impact of HB 463 That Additional Criminal Justice Reforms Can Build On
- New State Report Shows Little to No Progress on Achievement Gaps
- Criminal Justice Reform and Racial Disparities in Kentucky
- A County-by-County Look at Potential Enrollment Decreases from Proposed Medicaid Waiver
- Modest Savings from Medicaid Waiver Ignore Added Costs and Mostly Don’t Come from Expansion Population
- Budget’s Reliance on One-Time Funds Presents Challenge Next Time Around
- New Medicaid Waiver Plan Keeps Approach from Problematic Original Proposal
- Five Challenges Kentucky College Students Face in 2016
- The Safety Net in Kentucky Lifts 810,000 People Out of Poverty
- Kentucky’s Revenue Not Keeping Up with Economy
- A Roundup of Recent Research on Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion
- What is Recidivism and What Can Be Done to Reduce It?
- Kentucky’s Schools Face Funding Challenges as Kids Head Back to School
- Report Explores Contributions of Refugees to Kentucky and the U.S.
- Five Takeaways from Kentucky’s Year-End Revenue Results
- Address Declining Workforce through Job Creation and Work Supports
- Vision Benefits Critical to Health of Kentuckians
- Things to Keep in Mind as Public Hearings on Medicaid Proposal Begin Today
- Approach to Medicaid Should Reflect Realities Facing Low-Income Kentuckians
- Eliminating Medicaid Dental Coverage Would Set Kentucky Back
- Waiver Proposal Says Cost Savings Come from Covering Fewer People
- What’s In the Governor’s Proposed Medicaid Changes
- Rising Kentucky Prison Population Should Make Penal Code Reform a 2017 Priority
- New Report Shows Cause for Concern Over High Income Inequality in Kentucky
- How Income Inequality Looks Across Kentucky Counties
- Infographic: Ky. Higher Ed Cuts Among Worst in the Country
- Federal Payday Lending Rule a Win for Kentuckians
- Understanding Pension Contributions in the Final Budget
- Report Points Out Successes with Kentucky’s Preschool Program and Progress to be Made
- Five Reasons Cutting Higher Education Hurts Low-Income and Minority Kentuckians
- Rural Kentucky Population Continues Decline While Urban and Suburban Areas Grow
- What Are Medicaid Waivers?
- A Fourth of Kentucky’s Salaried Workforce Will Benefit Under Increase to Overtime Threshold
- Kentucky’s Lopsided Recovery Continues
- Governor Vetoes Need-Based Scholarships for Thousands of Students
- Kentucky’s Class of 2016 Faces Lingering Slack in Labor Market
- Child Care Assistance and Preschool Improved in Budget Agreement
- New Early Childhood Education Report Highlights Benefits of Investment
- General Assembly’s Budget Includes Critical Scholarship Investments
- What Are Taxes For?
- Indiana Medicaid Waiver Model Should Not Be Replicated in Kentucky Without Evaluation
- What the Cuts Would Mean: A Look at How Kentucky Is Hurt By Proposed Disinvestments
- Questions and Concerns About the Senate’s Performance-Based Funding Proposal
- Uninsured Costs at U of L Hospital Have Dropped Dramatically Because of Medicaid Expansion and Kynect, But Could Go Up with Changes
- House Should Vote to Keep Kynect and Protect Medicaid Expansion from Harmful Changes
- House Budget Does Not Restore Many Crucial Services for Vulnerable Kentuckians
- Why the House Budget Approach Is Better than a Big Set Aside of Idle Funds
- House Budget Would Make College More Affordable for Kentuckians
- House Minority Budget Doesn’t Put More Money into Education
- It’s Kentucky’s Lack of Coverage and Poor Health that Are Unsustainable, Not Medicaid
- Budget Should Move Forward on Early Childhood, Not Back
- With Medicaid Expansion, Kentucky Healthcare Job Growth Picked Up in 2015
- Criminal Justice Reform Bill Would Save State Money and Reduce Recidivism
- Kentucky Weak in Some Aspects of Poverty and Opportunity, Strong in Others
- Cuts to Adult Education Would Decrease Access to GED Credential
- Three Steps to a Better Budget this Session
- Coal County Services Harmed by Severance Tax Collapse at Time of Transition
- Cuts to Property Valuation Administrators Counterproductive
- Undocumented Immigrants in Kentucky Pay $37 million in State and Local Taxes, Would Increase with Legal Status
- Fact Sheet: Need-Based Financial Aid Dollars Being Diverted to General Fund
- Unanswered Questions about the Cost and Feasibility of Shutting Down Kynect
- Cuts to Community Colleges Mean Disinvestment in Kentucky’s Primary Workforce Development Source
- Infographic: Kentucky Higher Education Cuts Among Worst in Country
- Tuition Freeze Is Not Proper Answer to College Affordability Problem Given Large, Continuous Budget Cuts
- What Would Budget Cuts to the Attorney General and Board of Elections Mean?
- Governor’s Budget Proposal Would Worsen College Affordability
- Infographic: Budget Cuts Have Costs and Consequences
- Research Shows Disconnect Between States’ Job Creation Policies and Real World Job Growth
- What’s Not Exempt from Cuts in the Governor’s Budget
- Diversion of Lottery Funds Undermines College Affordability
- A County-by-County Look at the Medicaid Expansion
- Eastern Kentucky, Veterans Affairs Workers Benefiting From Raised Minimum Wage for State Workers
- Raising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Spending on Medicaid
- Shutting Down Kynect Would Take Money From Other Important Priorities
- Who Stands to Benefit from Lexington’s New Minimum Wage
- 8 Reasons Kentucky Shouldn’t DisKynect
- Close Look at Employment Numbers Shows Need for More Jobs
- Child Care Workers’ Pay Is Not Enough
- New Report Shows Kentucky Child Care Assistance Continues to Fall Short
- Even Big Cuts to New Teachers’ Pensions Would Do Little to Address System’s Funding Challenge
- Report Shows Quality Childcare is Out of Reach for Kentucky Families
- New Data Shows Kentuckians with Third-Highest Student Loan Default Rate Among States
- Eastern Kentucky the Big Winner in Insurance Gains, but Rise in Poverty Shows Work to Be Done
- The Low-Income Kentucky Workers Who Would be Harmed by a Federal Tax Credit Cut
- Indiana Approach to Medicaid Expansion Limits Access to Needed Care
- Pension Needs Far Exceed Likely Revenue Growth in 2017
- Don’t Trust the Unemployment Rate: Coal Counties Edition
- Restricted Access to Unemployment Benefits Played Role in Paying Back Loan
- Job Growth since Recession Continues, but Quality is Mixed
- Despite Good Growth in 2015, Erosion Still Hurting Revenue
- 10 Reasons to Celebrate Medicaid’s 50th Birthday
- Road Fund Helped by 2015 Fix but Still Feeling Funding Challenges
- Year-End Revenues Highlight Importance of Individual Income Tax
- Yes, the Minimum Wage Helps Fight Poverty
- Busting a Right-to-Work Myth: Why Unions Need to Cover ‘Free Riders’ in RTW States
- Visual: Who Benefits from Lexington Raising the Minimum Wage?
- The Safety Net Is Effective at Fighting Poverty in Kentucky, Should Be Protected
- Working Family Tax Credits Support Kentucky Moms and Kids
- Visual: Medicaid Expansion Helps, Not Hurts, State Budget
- Kentucky’s Lopsided Recovery
- April 15 Isn’t Popular, But Taxes Still Important
- Kentucky a Loser in Proposed Tax Giveaway to Wealthiest
- County, Rural Roads Will Lose Millions Without Gas Tax Freeze
- Inaction on Gas Tax Will Drop Rate to Historically Low Levels
- Local Economies Harmed If Lawmakers Fail to Safeguard Road Fund
- Minority Working Families in Kentucky Far Behind Economically
- How Sentencing and Costs Compare in Heroin Bills
- Corporations Shouldn’t Get Pass on Local Option Sales Tax
- New Gallup Poll Shows Kentucky Now a Leading State in Insurance Coverage
- Bill Would Provide Greater Retirement Security for Workers at Kentucky Small Businesses
- Misclassification Harms State Budget as Well as Workers
- Kentucky Must Reject Deeply Dangerous Call for Constitutional Convention
- Map Shows How HB 374’s State EITC Would Help Working Families and Communities Across Kentucky
- Independent Study Says Medicaid Expansion a Good Deal for Kentucky’s Economy
- Expanding Kentucky’s Film Tax Credits Not a Strategy that Will Pay Off
- Missing Workers Problem Dampens Drop in Unemployment Rate
- Aspects of Heroin Bills Would Increase State Costs But Have Little Expected Impact on Crime
- Top 1 Percent of Kentuckians Continue to Capture Bulk of Income Gains in Recovery
- Manufacturing is Still Crucial to Kentucky’s Economy, Workers
- President’s Community College Proposal Could Help Make Higher Education Accessible for More Kentuckians
- Kentucky’s Upside Down Tax System Asks the Least of Those at the Top
- Kentucky Workers Left Behind as Majority of States Lift the Wage Floor
- More Support for Family Caregivers Good for Seniors and State
- Who Stands to Benefit from Louisville’s New Minimum Wage
- New Report Argues for Funding Proven Strategies to Enhance K-12 Student Achievement
- Trade Deficit with China Has Cost 41,100 Kentucky Jobs, Many in Manufacturing
- Gas Tax Formula Needs Change to Protect Investments in Infrastructure
- Despite Exemptions, Kentucky’s Sales Tax is Still Regressive
- Some Manufacturing Jobs Growing in Kentucky, but Not at Wages of Before
- Refinancing KTRS Debt a Sensible Step Toward Addressing Budget Challenge
- Kentuckians Will Benefit Under the President’s Immigration Action
- Is Another Budget Shortfall in the Works?
- As Costs Rise, Disadvantaged Students Falling Behind in Higher Education in Kentucky
- What’s So Dangerous About Cutting Income Tax Rates
- Kentucky Workers’ Productivity Is Growing But Wages Are Not
- What the Research Says About Minimum Wage Increases
- Energy Future Contains Risks But Also Opportunities for Kentucky
- Student Loan Default Rates Drop Nationally but Not in Kentucky
- Don’t Pop the Champagne on a Job Recovery Just Yet
- S&P Report Says Growing Inequality Harming State Budgets, Especially in States More Dependent on Sales Taxes
- New Census Data Does Not Reflect Health Insurance Gains Made in 2014, But Shows How Much Kentuckians Needed Coverage
- Two Pillars of Making Work Pay: Minimum Wage Increase and a State Earned Income Tax Credit
- Congressional Vote on Internet Tax Loopholes Could Help or Harm Kentucky’s Budget
- Increasing Accountability of For-Profit Colleges
- New Health Cooperative Leading Way in Providing Exchange Coverage
- New Year-End Data Show Kentucky’s General Fund Continuing to Erode
- Revenue Growth Will Need to Pick Up to Hit 2015 Forecast
- Five Factors Behind Shrinking Revenue Growth in the Recovery
- Kentucky Should Get Involved In Debate About New College Affordability Strategies
- Evidence of Benefits of Medicaid Expansion Starting to Come In
- Lopsided Recovery Reflected in Which Revenue Sources Have Grown
- Details of Revenue Shortfall Should Not Be Misinterpreted to Support Bad Tax Ideas
- What’s Behind the State’s Revenue Shortfall?
- Why Kentucky Is Especially Vulnerable in Revenue Shortfall
- Lessening Burden of Student Loans One Step of Many Toward Greater College Affordability
- There’s Precedent for the Transition Assistance Eastern Kentucky Needs
- The Real Threat to Kentucky Manufacturing Jobs
- Growing Tuition Tax Credit Denies Students in Poverty Even As Need-Based College Aid is Underfunded
- State EITC Would Make a Regressive Tax System Fairer
- Cutting State Income Taxes No Way to Attract New Residents
- What Are Taxes For?
- Tax Break Bill a Setback for Revenue System
- New Budget Will Worsen Kentucky’s College Affordability Problem
- Pre-School Expansion a Notable Part of Budget Agreement
- Senate Budget Accepts Affordable Care Act Funds and Draws on Law’s Benefits
- Infographic: Make Work Pay for Kentucky Families with a State EITC and Minimum Wage Increase
- How the Senate Budget Differs from the House
- Severance Tax Dollars Need Stronger Overall Strategy
- While Kentucky’s Budget Faces More Cuts, Profitable Fortune 500 Companies Avoid Paying State Corporate Income Taxes
- What Revenue Changes Are Moving in the General Assembly
- Privatization Brings Concerns about Accountability, Quality and Cost
- Infographic: A State Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for Kentucky
- Interactive Map: How a State Earned Income Tax Credit Would Benefit Each Kentucky County
- Expanded Federal Earned Income Tax Credit Would Be Big Benefit to Kentucky Workers
- Budget Cuts Threaten Kentucky’s Ability to Sustain and Grow Progress in Adult Education
- Fund Transfers Can Harm Needed Programs and Result in Higher Costs
- Diverting Lottery Revenues Makes College Less Affordable For Those Who Need It Most
- Top 1 Percent of Kentuckians Captured Nearly Half of State Income Growth over Last Few Decades
- How Governor’s Tax Plan Differs from Tax Commission’s Recommendations
- State EITC Would Help Working Kentuckians Afford Necessities
- Increase in Tipped Minimum Wage Is Long Overdue
- Statement on Governor Beshear’s State of the Commonwealth Address
- Official Revenue Estimate for Next Budget Slightly Worse than Weak October Forecast
- New Report Shows Continued Higher Education Gaps for Disadvantaged Students Alongside Funding Cuts
- Cut-off in Unemployment Benefits Would Hurt Thousands of Kentuckians and the Economy
- Preliminary Forecast Predicts Weakest Revenue Growth Since Recovery Began
- Sequestration Cutting Housing Assistance for Thousands of Low-Income Kentuckians
- 875,000 Kentuckians to See a Cut in Food Assistance Beginning Today
- Budget Cuts Further Widen Education Funding Gaps
- Kentucky Among States with Biggest Coverage Assistance from Health Reform
- Kentucky Fast Food Workers Struggle with Low Wages While Industry Does Well
- Revenue Forecast for Next Budget Remains Weak
- Kentucky Scores Poorly in Report on Women’s Well-Being
- Health Reform Is Increasing Coverage in Kentucky with More Gains Soon to Come
- Census: Number of Poor Kentuckians Remains High, Incomes Stagnant
- Kentucky Among States that Have Substantially Cut Funding for Schools
- Kentucky’s Income Tax Critical to Preventing Deeper Budget Cuts
- New Data: One in Six Households in Kentucky Struggle Against Hunger
- Investing in Education Will Build a Stronger State Economy
- Revenue Forecast Shows Continued Deterioration of State Tax System
- Kentucky’s Joblessness a Big Reason to Protect SNAP
- Graphic: New Revenue Wouldn’t Even Cover Basic Costs
- Another Bad Year for Kentucky Workers’ Wages
- Small Budget Surplus Provides Little Reason to Celebrate
- 875,000 Kentuckians Will See Cuts to Food Assistance This Fall
- Kentucky Program Led the Way in Helping Low-Income Adults Get Higher Education, but Barriers Growing
- Budget Cuts Stack Up: Kentucky Faces the Eighth Largest Decrease in Federal Grants Among States
- Kentuckians Face Challenges in Accessing the GED in 2014
- Kentucky’s 2013 Revenue Growth Lower than Many Other States
- Underfunding Also Led to Shortfall in Local Government Pensions
- A Tax Shift Is Not Tax Reform
- Proposed Cuts to Medicare and Social Security Would Drive More Seniors into Financial Hardship
- Need for Health Care Workers Is an Economic Opportunity
- Implementing Health Reform Will Promote Entrepreneurship in Kentucky
- Pathway to Citizenship for Immigrants Would Be Good for Kentucky’s Economy
- Medicaid Expansion Can Help Address Kentucky’s Substance Abuse Problem
- Medicaid Expansion Will Help Kentuckians Get the Care They Need and Increase Financial Security
- Bill to Collect Internet Sales Tax Would Help Kentucky’s Budget and Level Playing Field for Local Businesses
- Federal Limit on Tax Expenditures Would Generate Needed Revenue and Make Taxes Fairer
- Expanding Medicaid in Kentucky Could Improve the Health of Women and Babies
- Interactive Map: Expanding Medicaid Would Increase Health Coverage In Every Kentucky County
- What Are Taxes For?
- Without More Revenue, Paying Pension Liabilities Will Continue to Be Challenge
- Child Care Cuts Part of Broader Underinvestment in Early Learning
- State’s Mental Health System Has Experienced Severe Funding Shortfalls
- Higher Minimum Wage Is Good for Kentucky Workers and the State’s Economy
- Expanding Medicaid is a Good Move for Kentucky
- Ryan Budget Would Mean Substantial Funding Cuts in Kentucky
- Kentucky Remains Long Way from Employment Recovery
- Revenue Recovery from Great Recession is Slow
- Not Paying Pension Bills Adds Up
- Retirement System’s Investment Return Assumption is Reasonable
- New Projections Say Senate Pension Bill Is $206 Million More Expensive than House Plan
- Lottery Funds Not Adequately Supporting State Financial Aid Programs
- Gambling Revenues Are No Substitute for Tax Reform
- Income Tax Cuts No Way to Grow Small Businesses
- Bill Would Be a Step Toward Greater Accountability for Tax Breaks
- Administration Describes Bleak Outlook for Next Budget without More Revenue
- State Can’t Pay Pension Debt from Natural Revenue Growth without Harming Services
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Jobs by Industry
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Race
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Education
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Wages
- Penny Increase in Sales Tax Would Worsen Tax Fairness and Fail to Fix Long-Term Revenue Problem
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Youth
- Tax Commission Recommendations Raise Needed Revenue but Include Big Corporate Tax Cut
- Kentucky Job Growth Remains Slow and Jobs Deficit Substantial
- The State of Working Kentucky: Gender
- The State of Working Kentucky 2012: Employment
- Pension Recommendations Emphasize Employee Sacrifice While Addressing Only Portion of Liability
- Kentucky Falls Short in Closing Higher Education Gaps
- Arguments to Cut Income Tax Miss Context and Ignore Tax’s Benefits
- What Would Kentucky Gain from More Business Tax Cuts?
- The Bigger Picture on Who Pays Taxes
- Taxing Groceries Not a Good Strategy for Kentucky
- Transitioning Adults to Postsecondary Education Crucial to Meeting Goals
- Pension Issue is Primarily a Revenue Challenge
- Higher Education Helped in the Recession, but Doesn’t Guarantee a Good Job in Recovery
- State Cuts to Education Continue to Deepen
- Increase in Federal Minimum Wage Would Provide Much-Needed Boost to Kentucky Families
- Agenda to Reduce Taxes and Workers’ Rights No Path to Prosperity
- Kentucky Job Growth Continues To Be Too Slow
- Report’s Findings Suggest Kentucky’s Business Tax Incentives Not Very Cost-Effective Way to Create Jobs
- Report Estimates Medicaid Expansion Could Actually Save Kentucky Money
- Medicaid Expansion is a Very Good Deal for Kentucky
- Supreme Court Ruling Allows Kentucky to Move Forward on Addressing Health Challenges
- Immigrant Entrepreneurs Help Grow Kentucky Economy
- Budget Cuts Lead to Job Losses
- The Problem of Low Wages in Kentucky
- Senior Tax Breaks Don’t Attract Migrants
- Spring Job Growth in Kentucky Slows, Big Gap Remains
- Kentucky’s Adult Education Challenge
- Growth of Economic Development Incentives Comes with Little Accountability
- What Are Taxes For?
- Decline of TANF Caseloads Not the Result of Decreasing Poverty
- Budget Agreement Affirms Deep Cuts to Core Investments
- Report Highlights Kentucky’s Need for More Progressive Income Tax
- The Benefits of Expanded Pre-School
- Legislation Requiring Government-Issued ID Could Deny Public Benefits to Eligible Recipients
- Blue Ribbon Commission on Tax Reform Launches Website
- A Decade of Erosion in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in Kentucky
- Tax Expenditures Big Cause of Budget Problems, but Some Legislators Want More
- Faster Job Growth is Encouraging, but Kentucky Still Has Long Way to Go
- Budget Would Further Reduce College Affordability
- Inadequate Tax System Has Big Role in Austere Budget
- State Releases More Pessimistic Revenue Forecast
- Op-Ed: Kentucky Must Invest, Reform Tax Code to Progress
- Category: COVID-19
- Category: Criminal Justice
- Category: Economic Security
- Category: Education
- Category: Federal Tax and Budget
- Category: Health Care
- Category: Jobs and the Economy
- Category: State Tax and Budget
- Category: Tax and Budget
- Category: Workforce and Economic Development
- Category: Budget and Tax In-Focus
- What Does Kentucky Value? A Preview of the 2020-2022 Budget of the Commonwealth
- Critical Investments for a Healthier Kentucky
- Time for Sensible Approach to Paying Pensions
- Governor’s Budget Cuts Education, Eliminates Some Programs
- Commonwealth At Risk: A Preview of the 2018-2020 Kentucky State Budget
- The Funding Gap Between Kentucky’s Poor and Wealthy School Districts Continues to Grow
- Revenue Options to Meet Obligations and Protect Investments
- Pensions Need Responsible Funding Plan, Not Exaggerated Claims
- Switch to 401k-Type Plan for Kentucky Public Employees Will Cause More Harm
- How At-Risk Federal Discretionary Funds Are Important to Kentucky
- What Good Tax Reform Looks Like
- The Impact of the 2017 General Assembly on the Kentucky State Budget
- Taxing Groceries in Kentucky Would Hurt Low-Income Families, Weaken Revenue Growth
- Inheritance Tax Repeal Is Giveaway to the Top Kentucky Can’t Afford
- The Path to a Stronger Commonwealth: Prioritizing Investments in Our Communities Over Tax Breaks for the Powerful
- Budget Agreement Affirms Deep Cuts, Higher Pension Contributions
- Senate Budget Maintains Governor’s Deep Budget Cuts, Increases Pension Contributions by Reducing Governor’s Set-Aside Funds
- House Budget Uses Set-Aside Money to Reduce Cuts and Fully Fund Teachers’ Pensions
- Revenue Options that Strengthen the Commonwealth
- Investing in Kentucky’s Future: A Preview of the 2016-2018 Kentucky State Budget
- Reinstating Kentucky’s Tax on Extreme Wealth a Part of Making State Taxes Fair and Adequate
- Category: COVID-19 In-Focus
- Category: Criminal Justice In-Focus
- Category: Economic Security In-Focus
- Category: Education In-Focus
- Category: Health Care In-Focus
- Category: Home Feature 1
- Revenue Options That Strengthen the Commonwealth
- Governor’s Budget Makes Modest Increases to Education Funding and Selected Other Areas, Raises Small Amount of New Revenue
- Don’t Miss Important Conversations at KCEP’s 2019 Policy Conference
- House Budget Raises Revenue, Prevents Some Education Cuts
- Governor Presents Austere Budget that Cuts Public Investments Further and Dedicates More for Pension Liabilities
- Promoting Long-Term Investment in Appalachian Kentucky: A Permanent Coal Severance Tax Fund
- Category: Home Feature 2
- Our Commonwealth: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget
- Kentucky’s Economic Performance Falls Short of Claims Based on Corporate Announcements
- The State of Working Kentucky 2018
- Shifting to a Tennessee-Like Tax System Would Harm Kentucky
- Senate Budget Shifts Money Between Retirement Systems, Contains No New Revenue So Deeply Cuts Services
- Category: Home Feature 3
- Category: Jobs and the Economy In-Focus
- Category: Press
- New Census Data Show Economic Progress Stalling Out for Low- to Middle-Income Kentuckians
- New Report: An Economic Agenda for a Thriving Commonwealth
- Kentucky 1115 Medicaid Waiver Statement
- Tax Plan an Enormous Giveaway to the Wealthy that Will Harm Kentucky Families
- Young Undocumented Immigrants in Kentucky Contributing More than $9 million in State and Local Taxes
- Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Louisville Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Statement on House Passage of Kynect and Medicaid Expansion Bills (HB 5 and 6)
- Statement on Gov. Bevin’s Decision to Reverse Minimum Wage Executive Order
- Statement on Louisville Minimum Wage Ruling
- Statement on Governor Beshear’s Action Raising the Minimum Wage for State Employees
- What the Research Says about “Right to Work” Laws
- KCEP Hires Colston as Communications Director
- Category: Budget and Tax Press
- The Economic State of the State
- Letter to Governor Beshear: Priorities for Use of Remaining Coronavirus Relief Fund Monies
- Congress Can’t Go Home Without Passing a Strong Aid Package
- New Census Data on Poverty, Income, Housing Insecurity and Food Scarcity Reveal Many Kentuckians on the Brink in the Pandemic
- Statement on Failed Senate “Skinny” Aid Proposal
- Inequality Between Rich and Poor Kentucky School Districts Grows Again Even as Districts Face New COVID Costs and Looming Revenue Losses
- Challenges Arise in Face of No New Stimulus Funds
- ‘Mitch Better Have My Money’: Kentuckians Gather Outside McConnell’s Office to Protest Alleged Blocking of Stimulus
- Reckoning in Coal Country: How Lax Fiscal Policy Has Left States Flat-Footed as Mining Declines
- Report: Kentucky Ranked 9th in the Nation for Public Sector Job Losses
- Statement on U.S. Senate COVID Aid Proposal
- A Ringing Question Amid KY Unemployment Meltdown: ‘What Are We Going to Do as a State?’
- COVID-19 Leads 800,000 Kentuckians to File for Unemployment Insurance
- McConnell Strangles the States: So Much for a Quick Recovery and Trump’s Reelection
- Economists Grapple With Pandemic’s Effects as Ohio Valley Officials Brace for a Fiscal Blow
- Facing the COVID Recession, Beshear Must Cut $618 Million in State Spending by June 30
- Kentucky Tonight: Debating Steps to Restart Kentucky’s Economy
- Will College Students Return This Fall? Universities Map out Return Plans, With Plenty of Caveats
- ‘Otherworldly.’ Kentucky Faces Shortfall of up to $500 Million Unless Congress Helps
- Coronavirus Could Create Nearly $500M Crater in This Year’s State Budget
- Kentucky Is Burning Through Its Unemployment Funds. What Happens If They Run Out?
- Commentary: Ky. Needs More Federal Aid to Address Severe Health, Economic Harms of COVID-19
- No New Cases; State Freezes Pensions for Quasi-Government Agencies
- Unimaginable Magnitude
- General Assembly Approves State Budget, Cuts Library Funding and Scales Back on Spending
- Cash-Strapped Kentucky Braces for the Unknown During Coronavirus
- Dr. Sarah Moyer, Louisville’s Health Chief, is Leading City’s Battle Against Coronavirus
- State Budget Bill With Teacher Raises, Pension Funding Advances to Kentucky House
- Ky. House Unveils Budget Proposal That Cuts Some Beshear Plans
- What Does Kentucky Value?
- Kentucky Tonight: Debating State Budget Priorities
- Eastern Standard: Kentucky’s Next State Budget
- SB 1 Will Worsen Racial Disparities in Kentucky
- Beshear Says He’ll Save the Fund That Saves Kentucky Natural Lands
- Pension Bill Has Winners and Losers Among Health Departments
- Organizations and Lawmakers React to Beshear’s Budget Proposal
- Where Will He Get the Money? Five Things to Look for in Andy Beshear’s First Budget.
- Don’t Be Fooled. Tax Credits for Private School Are About Dismantling Public Education.
- KY Center for Economic Policy Previews 2020-2022 Budget of the Commonwealth Address
- Immigration Bill Demands KY Public Agencies Cooperate with ICE
- Improvements Under School Safety Act Will Cost Millions
- Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Offers State Budget Preview
- Kentucky General Assembly Kicks Off Its 2020 Session Tuesday. Here’s What to Expect
- Comprehensive State Budget Preview Report: Recent Tax Cuts Drive Another Budget Where Investments Face Squeeze
- Efforts in Kentucky to Eliminate Income Tax Likely Stalled by Election of Beshear
- Prime Anchor: An Amazon Warehouse Town Dreams of a Better Life
- With Little New Revenue, Kentucky Faces Another Tight Budget
- County Looks at Insurance Tax
- Kentucky Tonight: Gubernatorial Transition
- Will the 2020 Budget Session Be Like Watching Groundhog Day?
- Beshear Promised Teacher Pay Raises. Without New Revenue, He Already Faces a Deficit.
- Bevin Administration Says Kentucky Faces $1.1 Billion Budget Shortfall Over Next Two Years
- ‘We’re Down to the Bone’: Kentucky’s Higher Ed Agency Calls for More State Spending
- Who Pays for Kentucky Public Schools? More and More, It’s Local Taxpayers
- Support Health in Kentucky With a Stronger State Budget
- Kentucky to Spend Millions on It Upgrades to Medicaid
- Rand Paul Tells ‘The View’ That People Who Earn $50K Don’t Pay Income Taxes
- Bevin’s Medicaid Work Requirement Would Cost Kentucky Hundreds of Millions, Feds Say
- Casinos or Taxes? Can Andy Beshear or Matt Bevin Deliver on Budget Promises?
- Could Kentucky See Sports Betting in the Near Future? The Odds Are Improving
- Will Kentucky Keep Choosing Special Interests Over Our Commonwealth?
- Kentucky Lawmakers Kick Off Pension Special Session
- Making Connections: State Policies Harm Kentuckians
- Why Is the Legislature Meeting in the Middle of Summer? and Other Special Session Questions
- Sunday Edition: Is Kentucky Being ‘Shortchanged’ on Its ‘Slots’
- New Report Explores Connections Between Kentucky’s Poor Health and Inadequate Budget Investment
- Kentucky Retirement Systems Asked to Reconsider Math That Made Pension Costs Skyrocket
- ‘SOTC’: Panel Discusses Paths Forward Out of Kentucky’s Pension Crisis
- As Matt Bevin Scrambles for Votes to Pass Pension Bill, Jeff Hoover Works Against It
- Report: Instant Racing Could Generate Millions in Tax Dollars for Kentucky Economy
- Report: Kentucky Could Make Millions By Taxing Betting Higher
- In Focus: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy on Pension Concerns in the Commonwealth
- Bevin’s Latest Pension Proposal Faces Criticism for High Costs to the State
- Bevin’s Pension Relief Bill Quickly Greeted With Criticism After Lawmaker Briefings
- As Special Session Looms, Groups Wonder What Pension Bill Impact Might Be
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Employee Pensions
- As Betsy Devos Comes to KY to Tout “School Choice,” Others Say It Isn’t a Good Choice
- On Tax Day, Let’s Celebrate What We Build Together With Taxes
- Sine Die: Lawmakers, Advocates Reflect on Session
- Lawmakers Just Passed Pension Relief…or a ‘Path to Insolvency.’ It Depends on Whom You Ask
- General Assembly Passes Pension Relief Bill, But Will Bevin Sign It
- State Bank Tax Cut Would Enrich Out-Of-State, National Banks
- ‘Pension Relief’ Bill Still Pending on Legislature’s Final Day, With Much at Stake
- Pension Changes Back on Deck as Legislative Session Winds Down
- Gov. Bevin Signs Tax Cut Bill That Will Reduce State Revenue by $106 Million a Year
- How Kentucky Lawmakers Can Still Provide Pension Relief Before the Session Ends
- Watch Out for Attack on Pensions on Session’s Final Day
- Bevin: Lawmakers Need ‘the Intestinal Fortitude’ to Pass Pension Reform
- Pension Relief Bill for Universities Still Has Life
- Troubling Cost, Content and Process of 2019 Tax Bill
- Tax Reform ‘Cleanup’ Bill Scales Back Bank Taxes
- ‘No Good Options’: Kentucky Lawmakers’ Vote Hurts Pensions
- Kentucky Could Lose $105 Million If Lawmakers Cut Taxes on Banks and Others
- ‘Best of the Worst Options.’ Pension Relief Bill for Universities, State Agencies Progresses
- How Will Private School Tax Credit Affect Kentucky Schools? Florida’s Program Is Spiraling
- Sponsor Says Controversial Scholarship Tax Credit Bill Is Unlikely to Pass This Year
- Pension Costs Could Shut Down Dozens of Kentucky Health Departments
- As HB 205 Debate Rage, Here Are Facts on Kentucky Public School Funding
- Kentucky Could Spend Millions More on Job ‘Incentives” Under Bipartisan Bill
- Kentucky Superintendents to Lawmakers: Don’t Pass Scholarship Tax Credits
- Cuts to K-12 Funding in Kentucky Among Worst in the Nation
- Statement: HB 292 Creates Greater Accountability and Transparency for Tax Expenditures
- Bill Gives Away $75M to Bring Jobs to Rural Kentucky. Critics call it ‘Horrible Deal.’
- Tax Break Debate Over Film Industry
- Statement: HB 387 Undermines Business Tax Break Transparency and Accountability
- House Panel Approved Surprise Request by Bevin to Borrow $150 Million for State Parks
- Don’t Hurt Public Education by Diverting Money to Private Schools
- Yes to More Sunlight on Lobbying, No to Private School Tax Credits
- Group Rallies in Support of School Choice Tax Credits
- Yes to More Sunlight on Lobbying, No to Private School Tax Credits
- Libertarian Group Joins Pension Reform Session, and Some Aren’t Happy
- Kentucky Tonight: 2019 General Assembly
- Kentucky Parents Pay Taxes on Diapers. The Legislature Could End That.
- Rep. Attica Scott Wants to End Kentucky’s Tampon Tax
- From the Reporter’s Desk: Pensions and What I Want to See This Session
- Nonprofit Study Shows Kentucky’s Corporate Tax Breaks are Largely Ineffective
- 3 Questions About Pension Reform Before the Kentucky Legislature Starts
- GOP Lawmakers Consider Passing Old Pension Bill Again, Despite Bevin’s Wishes
- Why Call a Special Session?
- Kentucky Pension Overhaul Has Failed Twice. Republicans Should Try a New Approach
- First a ‘Sewer’ Bill, Now a Christmas Crisis.
- Kentucky Governor Calls Special Session to Go After Teacher Pensions Again
- GOP Lawmakers May Drop Bevin’s Pension Bills in Favor of Version Tossed by High Court
- Statement on Pension Special Session
- The Supreme Court Struck Down Kentucky’s Pension Overhaul. Now What?
- As Pension Costs Rise, Agencies Cut Jobs – Which Hurts Pension Funding
- As Democrats Take House, Louisville’s John Yarmuth May Rise to Power
- Paul Ryan Talks Taxes on the Campaign Trail for Andy Barr in Kentucky
- Kentucky Pension Crisis: A Closer Look at What ‘Frontline’ Found
- New Report Shows Kentucky’s Tax System Worsens Income Inequality
- Tax Study Explores ‘Who Pays’ in Kentucky
- New Report: Wealthiest Kentuckians Pay the Lowest Tax Rate and the Problem Is Worsening
- Pursuing Policy Change in Kentucky
- Policy Steps To Improve the Kentucky Economy
- Americans for Prosperity Already Gearing Up Against Gas Tax Hike
- Promises, Promises: Still No Pay for Grandparents Raising Abused Kids
- Non-Profit Led by Hospital Executives Hoping for Changes to Kentucky’s Health Care Tax Code
- OK. Forget the ‘Knock Out’ Analogy. Bevin’s Public Pension Scare Tactics Are Still All Wet
- Kentucky Kids Go Back to School Amid More Budget Cuts
- Sports Betting Gains May Be Short-lived
- Fitch: Kentucky’s Medicaid Costs Up More Than 40 Percent
- How KFC YUM Center Became Louisville’s Billion-Dollar Baby
- Car Repairs. Gym Fees. Pet Care. On July 1, a Lot Will Cost 6% More in Kentucky
- Online Sales Tax Ruling Could Boost Kentucky Revenue
- Kentucky’s Republican Tax Reform Starts to Hit Worker Paychecks
- Legislators Compromised On Coal Severance — Too Little Too Late?
- Kentucky Losing Money On the Movies
- Even Kentucky’s Film Office Can’t Justify Losing Millions to Filmmakers
- Republicans Are Paying for Teacher Raises with Taxes and Fees That Hit Working- and Middle-Class Taxpayers
- School Districts Contend with State Budget Cuts
- WKU Studying Tuition Plan as State Funding Dwindles
- Brown-Forman Urging Bevin to Veto Tax ‘Cleanup’ Bill, Citing Change that Would Hurt Big Companies
- Kentucky is Giving this Coal Company Tax Breaks Worth Millions to Keep 250 Jobs
- What the Recent Tax Reform Bills Mean for the Average Kentuckians
- Legislative Session Was About Shift and Shaft
- Kentucky Lawmakers Earmark Mineral Taxes to Fund Louisville’s Botanical Gardens
- Kentucky’s Tax Cut for the Top 5 Percent Survives Despite Governor’s Veto
- Statement on the Final Passage of Budget and Tax Plans
- WKU Students, Others Rally to Support Higher Education
- Kentucky Approves Another $421 Million for Film Incentive Program Bevin Wanted to End
- Striking Teachers in Coal and Gas Country are Forcing States to Rethink Energy Company Giveaways
- Kentucky Governor Signs Controversial Pension Bill as Teachers Call for Rally
- After Bevin’s Vetoes, Could Charter School Money and Tuition Tax Credits Still Have a Shot?
- NKU Students, Faculty, Staff to Speak Out Against Budget Issues at Campus Rally Thursday
- Kentucky Organizations Issue Statement on Budget Vetoes
- ‘We Need to Govern in a Different Way’: Kentucky’s GOP Governor to Veto Tax Plan
- The Red-State Teacher Revolt has Been Brewing for Decades
- Oklahoma Teachers’ Walkout to Continue Next Week, Group Leader Says
- Just What John Calipari Needs – an $80,000 Tax Cut
- Study: GOP Bill Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Raises Taxes for 95 Percent of Kentuckians
- Kentucky Legislators Send Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Tax Hikes for the Other 95 Percent to Governor’s Desk
- Amid Massive Teacher Revolt over Starving Schools, Kentucky GOP Passes ‘Huge Tax Cut for the 1%’
- WKU Officials Anxiously Wait for Bevin Action on Budget Bill
- Kentucky Tax Reform Bill is a Break for the Rich but a Hike for Everybody Else, Study Says
- Thanks, Teachers, You Helped Kentucky Avoid Self-Destruction
- Striking a Match
- Editorial: State Legislature Should Give Due Diligence a Try
- State Budget Doesn’t Fund Charter Schools
- New Analysis Shows Kentucky’s New Tax Plan Is a Millionaire Tax Cut
- Kentucky Policy Group Criticizes Kentucky Tax Reform Plan
- Republican Lawmakers Push Taxes on Car Repairs, Pet Grooming as Part of Kentucky Budget Deal
- Senate Advances Last-Minute Overhaul of Tax Code
- Kentucky Tax Overhaul Plan: Good for Humana, Bad for Your Lawn (and Dog)
- Surge in Teacher Activism Challenges GOP Austerity Mindset
- Senate Passes Big Changes in Tax Code, Restores Many Controversial Cuts in Budget
- Kentucky Teachers Walk Out
- Gov. Bevin Says He’s Worried Kentucky’s Budget and Tax Bills Aren’t Fiscally Responsible
- Kentucky Lawmakers Eyeing Sales Tax Increases on Services
- Lawmakers Ignored Tenet of Good Government in Passing Pension Bill
- Pension Bill Takes an Extra Six Years and $5 Billion to Pay Kentucky’s Pension Debt
- Lawmakers Move to Sweeten Program that Helped Bevin Get Investors for Company He Co-owns
- Charter Schools May Be Coming To Kentucky, But Funding Is Still in Limbo
- Rural Tax Credit Bill Advances
- Kentucky’s Budget is on a Starvation Diet. But Lawmakers Keep Dishing Up Tax Breaks.
- Bill Gives Away $60 Million to Create Jobs in Kentucky, but No Proof of Jobs Required
- KY Teachers’ Pension System Would Face ‘Severe’ Cash Flow Problem Under Senate Plan
- Are More Strikes Coming? West Virginia Wasn’t the Only State Neglecting Employee Health Care
- As Senate Budget Takes Money from Teacher Pensions to Fund Others, Some Claim Retaliation
- If You Hate Gangs, Don’t Support this Bill
- Who’s “Ignorant” and “Uninformed”? Bevin Should Do More Homework Before Ranting on Radio
- KY Libraries, Schools and Cities Face Explosion in Pension Costs if Relief Bill Dies
- Time to Put End to Wrong-Headed Pension Bill
- State Senate Should Spare Higher Education from Harmful Cuts
- Chamber Says Tax Cuts Will Grow Kentucky’s Economy. History Says Otherwise
- Pension Bill Wins Its First Approval as Teachers Shout Their Disgust, Plan Protests
- House Takes $480.6 Million from Public Workers’ Health Plan to Balance Budget
- Kentucky Politics Distilled: The New Pension Bill
- Changes Coming to Pension Bill, but Cuts for Retired Teachers Staying, Lawmaker Says
- Kentucky Education Groups Say Newly Filed Pension Reform Bill Needs Changes
- The Kentucky General Assembly Finally Has a Pension Bill, Which Varies Greatly from Bevin’s Original Proposal
- GOP Pension Bill Tweaks Kentucky State Worker Benefits, More Changes for Teachers
- 7 Things Kentucky Teachers Need to Know About the Republican Pension Bill
- Kentucky’s New Pension Bill Would Cripple Schools and State Budget, Analyst Says
- Executive Director at KCEP Says Budget Cuts Are Not the Only Option
- Eastern Kentucky Districts Struggle with Budget Cuts While Some Already May Not Be Able to Pay Bills
- The Roots of a Terrible Budget
- Survey Shows Cuts to Ky. School Districts Have Meant Fewer Services, Proposed Budget Risks Quality of Education
- Lack of Adequate Revenue to Make Needed Investments in Commonwealth Sets Up the Most Difficult Budget Session in Years
- Statement on Justice Reinvestment Work Group Recommendations
- Funding Gap Between Kentucky’s Wealthy and Poor School Districts Climbing Toward Pre-KERA Levels
- Senate Votes to Give Massive Tax Cuts to Corporations and the Wealthy While Harming Middle Class and Working Kentuckians
- Kentuckians Can’t Live in a House of Cards
- U.S. House Tax Plan: Benefit for Richest 1 Percent in Kentucky Grows Over Time
- Exaggerated Pension Panic Fueling Harmful Bill
- GOP Tax Plan Offers Nothing to Most Kentuckians While Paving the Way for Cuts to Education, Health Care and Other Key Programs
- Revenue Options Provide Solution to Kentucky’s Pension Funding Problems
- Pension Session Without New Revenues Won’t Fix Problem
- Press Release: Report Shows Switch to 401k System Will Cause Added Harm
- Trump Budget Would Harm Kentuckians, Push Massive Costs Onto State
- Profitable Fortune 500 Companies in Kentucky Avoid Paying Millions in State Corporate Income Taxes
- Who Pays, and How Much in Tax Reform?
- Upside-Down Tax Plans Would Weaken Ky.
- Kentucky Continues Decline As One of Worst States for K-12 Core Funding Cuts
- Decisions Shouldn’t Be Made Based on False Choices
- Undermining Kentucky’s Foundation Not a Lasting Solution to Pension Challenge
- Statement on Passage of Executive Branch Budget
- Kentucky’s Past Shows Public Investment Is Essential to Progress
- Kentucky’s Funding Cuts to Schools among Nation’s Deepest
- Many Thousands of Kentucky Workers At Risk of Losing Coverage if Medicaid Expansion is Changed
- Reinstating Kentucky’s Tax on Extreme Wealth a Part of Making State Taxes Fair and Adequate
- Kentucky’s Undocumented Immigrants’ Tax Contributions Would Increase Under Reform
- Yum! Brands Sneaks Through Donated-Food Tax Credit, Continuing a Frankfort Tradition
- Yum Revives Bill on Donated-food Tax Credit
- Stiff Penalties Cost Both Ky., Addicts
- Tax Reform Likely to Be Deferred
- N. Ky. Bridge Toll Foes Concerned About Bill
- Study: Middle-Income Earners Shoulder Highest Tax Burden in Kentucky
- Wealthiest Kentuckians Have Lowest Overall State and Local Tax Rate
- Kentucky House Democrats’ Top Priority: The Local Option Sales Tax
- Eastern Kentucky Advocates Want Legislature to Set Up Separate Fund for Region’s Development
- Kentucky Revenue Receipts Suggest Slow Growth
- Cutting Tax Rates Proving to Be a Fad Hurting State Budgets
- Tax Reform Again Comes to Forefront
- Budget Shortfall Raises Spending Cut Fears in KY
- Local Taxes in Louisville
- Making Kynections to Other Policy Matters
- Report: KY Losing Ground on Higher Ed Funding
- Estimate of the Cost of State Tax Breaks is Slashed
- Kentucky Going Against National Trend by Failing to Reinvest in Higher Education
- Who Were the Biggest Winners, Losers of the 2014 General Assembly?
- General Assembly
- Kentucky Gets ‘B’ Grade In Government Transparency
- State Gets a Backroom Budget
- Kentucky Budget Falls Short
- Bill’s Last-Minute Tax Breaks Raise Questions
- How to Spend 20 Billion Dollars
- Economic Policy Expert – Proposed State Budget Doesn’t Do Enough to Correct Revenue Shortfalls
- Progressives Say Legislature Missed an Opportunity When It Approved Bourbon and Alcohol Tax Breaks
- Statement on Budget that Passed the General Assembly
- Budget Options Make Higher Education Harder to Afford for Those Who Need It Most
- Mine Safety Quietly Cut in House Budget Bill
- Students Have Potential to Lose $76M in State Aid
- Why Grant Programs to Help Low-Income Students Pay for College Is Being Short-Changed
- Budget’s Good News Not Enough for What Ails Kentucky
- Stop Shortchanging College Student Aid
- Will Kentucky Move Forward or Go Backward?
- Proposed State Budget Would Divert $76 Million Away From Cash-Strapped Student Aid Programs
- State Tax Reform
- Tax Code Changes in KY: Is Now the Time?
- The Death of State-Supported Universities
- Plan to Tax Services Raises Questions Among Kentucky Lawmakers
- Beshear Proposes 22 Tax Changes to Raise $210 Million a Year for Kentucky
- Beshear Puts Tax Reform Plan on Table
- Statement on Governor Beshear’s Tax Proposal
- Tax-Reform Plan to Be ‘Wide-Ranging,’ Gov. Steve Beshear Says
- Tax Reform in Kentucky
- Pension Reform Leaves Out Teachers
- Stop Cowering on State Tax Reform
- Beshear Budget: Ky Center for Economic Policy Shines Light on Painful Cuts
- Beshear Proposes State Budget that Boosts School Spending, Cuts Many Other Programs
- Principles Must Guide Details of Tax Reform Proposal
- Op-Ed: 3 Key Principles Must Guide Tax Code Changes
- Some Reactions to State of the Commonwealth
- Beshear Promises Tax Overhaul Plan in State of the Commonwealth Speech
- Kentucky Tax Reform and New Revenues are a Wild Card for State of the Commonwealth
- Lawmakers Face “Stark Choice” in Next Budget
- Area Administrators, Others Say Local Taxes Can’t Make Up Shortfall
- Kentucky’s Future
- Kentucky Finances in Shambles
- Funding Education Area of Debate, Concern
- Lawmakers Roll Up Sleeves for Session
- Tale of Two Kentucky Schools
- Legislators Face Stark Budget Choices
- Jan 2 Budget Issues
- Think Tank Says School Districts Unequal on Local Revenues
- School Tax Revenue Varies Widely Between Rich and Poor Districts
- SOAR: Creating Development Fund from Coal Severance Explored
- Governor Steve Beshear Will Still Push Tax Reform
- Economic Analyst: Budget Austerity Hurting Kentucky
- Extended Library Hours are Worth Preserving
- Kentucky School Districts Turn to Local Taxes in Search of Funds
- Federal Budget and Debt Ceiling
- Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer Pitches Local Option Sales Tax to State Lawmakers
- Gray, Fischer Push For Local Option Sales Tax In Frankfort
- Lawmakers to Consider Proposal to Allow Temporary Sales Tax Increases
- Private Prisons’ Legacy in Kentucky is Mixed
- Cuts to Snap Would Hurt Kentucky
- Forecast: Kentucky Revenue Growth To Remain Sluggish
- Coal Severance Expected to Decline
- Nuclear Seen as an Option for State
- Reclaiming Kentucky: Why Is the Coal Severance Tax Funding Rupp Arena’s Renovation?
- Study Examines the Value of Immigration Reform
- Fifty-State Study Shows Immigration Reform Would Boost Kentucky Revenues $23.2 Million
- Immigration Reform Would Boost Kentucky Revenues By $23 Million
- Immigration Reform Would Boost Kentucky Revenues By $23.2 Million
- Kentucky Tax on Chewing Tobacco to Drop
- A Very Bad Tax Cut
- Brock, Fiscal Court Commended for Budget Practices on Coal Dollars
- Internet Sales Tax Bill Could Restore Some State Budget Cuts, Kentucky Group Says
- Tax Reform Commissioners Fear Governor Beshear Will Shelve Revenue Proposals
- Taxing Internet Sales Could Help Local Businesses
- Tax Reform on Beshear’s Agenda
- Five Big Problems Stand in Way of Adequate State Budget
- A Win-Win for Kentucky’s Budget and Small Businesses
- Far Less Mining: Region Experiencing Rapid Drop in Coal Severance Tax Funds
- Ryan Budget Big Cost for KY
- Federal Budget
- Report – Kentucky Has Cut Higher Ed Funding 26 Percent Since 2008
- Funding for Higher Education Lags Since Recession, Report Says
- In the Game of Pension Risk, Cost Isn’t the Only Thing Lawmakers Are Considering
- Thayer to Lawmakers: Don’t Throw Out Pension Bill with Bipartisan Support Because of One Report
- Pension-Overhaul Bill Could Cost Kentucky Millions
- Pension Bill Provision will cost $55 Million
- Bluegrass Poll on Tax Increase and Budget Cuts
- Senators Could Soon Vote on Pension Reform
- Wealthiest Kentuckians Pay Far Less in State and Local Taxes than Low- and Middle-Income Kentuckians
- Report: Kentucky Tax System Unbalanced on Backs of Poor
- Kentucky Tax Reform Will Likely Wait Until Special Session
- Kentucky Falls Short on Preparing for Future Recessions
- Coal Severance Trust Still a Good Idea
- Lexington Mayor Says Pension Costs Have ‘Spiraled Out of Control’
- Ky Center for Economic Policy Report: ‘Worst Outlook in Recent Memory’
- Seeking Tax Fairness Out of Tax Reform
- Tax-Reform Commission Showed Courage in Many Recommendations
- Plan Offers a Shot at Kentucky Tax Reform
- Kentucky Tax Reform Commission Changes Would Create $690 million in Revenue in First Year
- Governor Beshear’s Reform Panel Expected to Tackle Income Tax Rates
- Fiscal Cliff
- Kentucky Reform Commission Recommends Hiking Cigarette Tax to $1 a Pack
- Decisions Loom Monday for Kentucky Tax Reform Commission
- Commission Whittling Down Tax Proposals
- Kentucky Commission Rejects Adding Tax to Food Bought at Groceries
- Tax Reform Commission Seeks to Narrow Proposals
- Federal Proposals Would Extend Tax Breaks for a Handful of Wealthy Kentuckians While Ending Support for Many Working Families
- State Must Face Pension Debt
- A Discussion About the Federal Budget
- Reducing Federal Deficits Without a Significant Revenue Increase Would Cost Kentucky Billions
- Coal Severance Trust Fund a Good Idea
- Kentucky Debating a Tax Overhaul — Again
- Kentucky’s Income Tax: Protecting and Strengthening a Key to Growth
- Who Would Benefit from Alternative Ways to Extend the Bush Tax Cuts?
- Do We Need a Coal Severance Tax Trust Fund?
- Set Endowment for Coal Counties
- Given Kentucky’s Budget Downpour, State Should Use Rainy Day Fund
- Report Urges Policymakers to Consider Long-Term Sustainability of Coal Severance Fund
- Beshear Names 23, Including Todd and Silberman, to Tax Reform Commission
- Tax Reform Panel Named
- KCEP Urges Tax Reform Over Expanded Gaming
- Kentucky, Ohio Businesses Trading Spaces
- Tax Breaks for Jobs, Half Fall Short
- Lawmakers Expect Budget Cuts Will Affect All Areas
- Principles Critical to Effective Tax Reform
- Principles Critical to Effective Tax Reform
- A Tasty Tax Deal
- Rep. Farmer Pre-files New Tax Reform Bill
- Get Corporations to Pay More Taxes
- Study: Yum Brands Avoided Paying State Income Taxes Despite Large Profits
- New Report Shows Major, Profitable Corporations Paying No State Corporate Income Taxes
- More Dollars for Degrees Puts Crunch on Kentuckians
- KY Women’s Group to Push for Tax Changes to Services and a New Bracket on the Rich
- Income Tax Vs. Sales Tax Debate Heats Up
- Kentucky Higher Education: New Report Details Rising Cost of College, Erosion of State Support
- Restore Employer Funding for Jobless Benefits
- Should KY Employers Foot Bill for Unemployment Interest Due to Feds?
- Focus on Spending Cuts Ignores Revenue Problem
- KY’s Economic Growth Signals Tax Reform?
- KY Economic Think Tank Says Reform, Don’t Scratch Corporate Taxes
- Economic Group Says Eliminating Kentucky’s Corporate Taxes Wouldn’t Be Very Beneficial to State
- State Shouldn’t Cut Corporate Taxes
- KY Group–Bush Tax Cuts Extension is Deficit-Doubling Proposition
- Fox Strains to Make Debt Top Issue
- Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Break an American Promise
- Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Break an American Promise
- Kentucky Must Invest, Reform Tax Code to Progress
- Federal Budget Debate Must Include Discussion of Investments Needed for Growth
- Federal Budget Debate Must Include Discussion of Investments Needed for Growth
- State Lawmakers Call for Constitutional Convention
- Farmer’s High-Risk Overhaul Creates Imbalance in Kentucky’s Tax System
- Kentucky Exempts More Than It Takes In
- Special Tax Breaks and Preferences a Big Drain on Kentucky’s Budget
- A New Voice in Kentucky Public Policy Debates
- End of Recovery Act Funds Could Mean Serious Budget Challenge for Kentucky
- MACED Launches Economic Policy Center
- Category: COVID-19 Press
- New Survey Shows Extreme Hardship Among Kentuckians as President Halts Talks on New COVID-19 Aid Bill
- Mitch McConnell Dismisses Claims About Future of Affordable Care Act: “No One Is Going to Lose Their Health Care”
- Commentary: An Open Letter To Sen. Mitch Mcconnell From Kentucky Voices for Health, Advocating for Relief
- New Census Data on Poverty, Income, Housing Insecurity and Food Scarcity Reveal Many Kentuckians on the Brink in the Pandemic
- Labor Day Town Hall With Rep. John Yarmuth Will Discuss Federal Aid, Support for Families
- Labor Day Town Hall Focuses on Support for Workers
- Guest Columnist: Landlords Must Provide 30-Day Notice Before Evicting Tenants
- Report: COVID-19 Widens Resource Gap Between KY School Districts
- Families Encouraged To Apply for Pandemic Benefits Before Deadline
- Kentucky Families Encouraged To Apply for Pandemic Relief
- Deadline Nears for Low-Income Families for $313 Benefit
- Chance To Get COVID-19 Food Benefits for Kentucky School Children Ends Aug. 31
- Families of Students Encouraged To Apply for Food Benefits Before Aug. 31 Deadline
- Meager Executive Action Is No Substitute for Real Congressional Aid
- Here’s How Kentucky Can Create a Safe, Convenient and Secure November Election
- Challenges Arise in Face of No New Stimulus Funds
- “Mitch Better Have My Money”: Kentucky Voters Angry at McConnell’s Response to Economic Crisis
- Kentucky Workers and Businesses Are Furious With Mitch Mcconnell Over His Response to State’s Economic Crisis: Report
- An Economic Crisis in Kentucky Has Workers, Businesses Furious With Mcconnell
- Trump Executive Action on Unemployment Insurance Deliberately Leaves Out Poorest
- Experts Warn Trump Executive Action on Unemployment Insurance Deliberately Leaves Out Poorest Americans
- Here’s How Mcconnell’s $1 Trillion Heals Act Would Impact Kentucky Businesses and Workers
- Once Seemingly Insulated, Kentucky’s Appalachian Counties Scramble to Stop COVID-19 Outbreak
- Kentucky Faced a $457 Million Shortfall. Then It Had a Surplus. Here’s What Happened.
- Advocates Warn Kentucky Homeless Services Systems Can’t Handle the Coming ‘Tsunami of Evictions’
- Kentuckians Sound Alarm for More Federal COVID-19 Relief
- Beshear Sees Signs That Mask Mandate Is Slowing the Spread of the Coronavirus
- Kentucky Leading Among States in Medicaid Enrollment as It Works to Sign up Those Eligible
- Here’s How Mcconnell’s $1 Trillion Heals Act Would Impact Kentucky Businesses and Workers
- Will Rural Homelessness Hit After Benefits and Eviction Moratoriums End?
- Loss of $600 Weekly Unemployment Boost Called ‘Devastating’
- Beshear Sees Signs That His Mask Mandate Is Slowing the Spread of the Coronavirus
- Survey: Half of Kentuckians Have Lost Household Income Since Start of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Analysts: Out-Of-Work Kentuckians Face ‘Benefit Cliff’ in Coming Days
- Nearly 1 in 3 Kentuckians Are Enrolled in Medicaid as COVID-19 Recession Ends Jobs
- Andy Beshear Picked 1,235 Inmates for Release to Stem COVID-19. Here’s How It Worked
- ACA Repeal More Dangerous Than Ever for Kentuckians During Pandemic and Economic Crisis
- KY Continues to See Sky-High Unemployment Claims
- An Equity-Focused Pandemic Policy Response Helps Us All
- Mitch McConnell Is Blocking Aid Local Governments in His State Desperately Need
- 48 Kentucky Groups Call on Congress for Robust Federal Fiscal Relief to States
- Kentucky’s Reopening Brings Health Fears, Hope for Economy
- High Unemployment Rates Likely Not Going Away Soon
- Kentucky’s Unemployment Claims Are Down, but Still Remain High
- The Deficit Hawks Are Circling Their Old Roosts
- As Mitch Mcconnell Suggests State Bankruptcies Over Bailouts, Kentucky Has Largest Share of Unemployed in U.S.
- Report: Great Recession Provides Lessons on Need for Adequate Relief to States During COVID-19 Crisis
- KY Counties See Dark Days Ahead as Tax Revenue Drops
- Women, Minorities Over Represented in Kentucky’s ‘Essential’ Workforce
- Increase to Food Stamp Benefits Could Take Weight off Local Food Banks
- Newly Eligible Arts Workers Try to Navigate KY.’s Unemployment System
- Congress Must Act to Prevent State Budget Cuts from Dragging Economy Further Down
- Lost Health Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Here’s How to Apply
- Ohio Valley Continues Unprecedented Surge of Unemployment
- Beshear Pleads for More Protective Gear, Notes First Death of a Long-Term-Care Worker From COVID-19, Says, ‘They’re Heroes, Too’
- For West Virgina’s Hospitals, the Financial Crisis Came First
- Kentucky Needs Significantly More Federal Aid to Address the Severe Health and Economic Harms of COVID-19
- More than 117K Kentuckians File for Unemployment as Country Continues Jobless Claims Spike
- Uninsured Urged to Apply for Temporary Medicaid During Pandemic
- As Groceries Dwindle, Kentuckians Seek Unemployment Help in Record Numbers
- Broad Coalition, Including Conservative Groups, Calls for Beshear to Reduce Inmate Numbers
- Coronavirus Will Devastate Struggling Families in Eastern Kentucky
- Here’s What Kentucky Will Get out of the $2 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
- Kentucky to Receive $1.7 Billion From Federal Coronavirus Bill
- A Record 48,000 Kentuckians Filed for Unemployment Last Week. U.S. Total Was 3.28M.
- SB 150 Would Cushion the Blow for Unemployed Workers and Our Economy
- Unemployment Insurance: How It Works and How To Apply
- Coronavirus Threatens Strained Rural Health Care System
- States and Cities Scramble Amid Virus ‘Chaos’ in Washington
- Employees, Union and Community Leaders Call for Paid Sick Leave
- Steps Taken to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus
- Trump’s Coronavirus Emergency Declaration Will Speed up Medicaid Enrollments in Kentucky
- Kentucky Business Groups Quiet on Bill to Mandate Sick Leave
- Kentucky’s Economic Catastrophe Mounts With Each Passing Hour Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- For Many in Kentucky, a Sick Day Means No Pay
- Clinicians Suspected Kentucky’s First Case of Coronavirus, but Patient Didn’t Qualify for Testing
- After Hep A Failures, Are Kentucky Health Departments Ready for Coronavirus
- Category: Criminal Justice
- Meet the Groups Bailing Louisville Protesters and Others From Jail. What They Want Is Reform
- Kentucky Law Enforcement Group Says Assignment Question on Breonna Taylor ‘Targets’ Police
- A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases in the Criminal Justice System
- Groups Launch Kentucky Resource Hub for Those Leaving Incarceration
- Statement on Systemic Change and Police Violence
- These Bills Would Help KY’s Bursting Prisons and Jails. Here’s Why They’re Stalled
- Criminal Justice Reform Efforts in the Kentucky General Assembly
- Legislation Would Raise Threshold on Felony Theft, Fraud to Help Reduce Prison Population
- Youth Advocates Optimistic of Bill That Includes More Discretion on Trying Teens as Adults
- Federal Crackdown on Fentanyl Analogues Repeats the Mistakes of the Drug War, Advocates Warn
- Andy Beshear Says Kentucky Might Buy Two Private Prisons, Needs to Reduce Inmate Squeeze
- Kentucky’s Bail System is Broken, Clogging Overcrowded Jails. Will Lawmakers Fix It?
- Time for a Change: Justice Reform Needed and Fast
- ‘Get Something Done’: Community Talks About Bail Reform
- Report: Kentucky Incarceration Rates Worst in Region
- The Phantom Promise: How Appalachia Was Sold on Prisons as an Economic Lifeline
- Louisville Officials to Advocate for Cash Bail Reform in Next Legislative Session
- Podcast: Weekly Chat on Proposed Madison County Jail Expansion
- Boyle County Detention Center a Focus of Statewide Incarceration Study
- Why Are Many Kentucky Jails So Crowded?
- Time for Reform: Overcrowding Issue Didn’t Start at the Jail
- Newly Available Data Shows Madison County Jail Crowding Driven by Low and Moderate Risk Defendants Awaiting Trial for Low Level Offenses
- Waiting for Trial: Lag in Judicial System Timeline Contributes to Overcrowding
- Building a Huge, Expensive Jail Would Be a Big Mistake for Madison County
- Kentucky Has an Arbitrary Justice System Across Counties
- Op-Ed: A Criminal Defense Attorney’s Perspective on Posting Bail in Kentucky
- Report: In KY, Staying in Jail May Depend on Where You Live
- ‘Disparate Justice’ Study Calls for Cash Bail Reform
- County Leads State in Pretrial Release of Defendants
- Data Suggests Where You Live in Kentucky Could Affect How Long You Stay in Jail if You Can’t Afford Cash Bail
- Study: Cash Bails Vary by County
- Kentucky Needs Equitable Pretrial Release System
- Bail Practices Study Finds McCracken County Least Likely to Use Non-Financial Bond
- Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Calls for Bail Reform
- Variance in County Bond Releases Brings Justice System Credibility into Question
- End Cash Bail March Sheds Light on Community Efforts
- “We Are Doing This Under a Banner of Urgency’: More Than 100 March to End Cash Bail
- Report: Kentucky Counties Have Inconsistent Bail Policies
- No Bail for You: Kentucky Counties Are ‘Wildly Inconsistent’ in How They Treat Defendants
- Report: Where Kentuckians Live Affects Chances for Pretrial Release
- New Report Reveals an Arbitrary Justice System Across Counties
- New Grant to Fund Research on Kentucky Jails
- Kentucky Needs to Reverse Course on Criminal Justice Trends
- Economic Policy Group Hoping For Bail Reform in 2019 Legislative Session
- Building a Kentucky Economy That Works for Everyone
- Guest Opinion: Reforming Kentucky’s Bail System
- In the Wake of Amendment 4: Spotlight on Disenfranchisement in Kentucky
- State Officials Discuss Criminal Justice Reform Amid Incarceration Boom
- Opponents Express Outrage Over Gang Bill in Senate
- Does America Need Another Prison? It May Be this Rural County’s Only Chance at Survival
- Kentucky Tonight: Violent Crime
- New Law Will Increase Sentences for Low-Level Heroin Dealers in Kentucky, a Break From Recent Criminal Justice Reform
- General Assembly Risks Driving Corrections Costs Higher
- Prison Reform and Second Chances
- Breaking the Cycle
- Unlikely Allies May Push to Reform Ky. Penal Code
- Improving Reentry in Kentucky through Education and Supports for Inmates and Ex-Offenders
- Category: Economic Security Press
- Appalachia Coalition Creates Blueprint for Sustainable, Equitable Future
- Survival Is Anything but Certain for Coal Country
- ‘No Pay, We Stay.’ A Look Back At Miners’ Protest That Rocked Appalachia
- Governor Calls on Employers to Offer Paid Sick Leave
- Revised Public Assistance Bill Still Fraught With Problems, Advocates Say
- Hearing for Public Aid Bill On Tap Thursday in Frankfort
- Groups Concerned Public Assistance Reform Could Hurt Some Kentuckians
- New Restrictions, Penalties Proposed for Kentucky Assistance Programs
- Kentuckians Unaffected by New Food Stamp Rule, Officials Say
- Trump Administration’s New Food Stamp Rules Will Make it Harder for Kentuckians to Get Aid
- New SNAP Rule Could Hit Ohio Valley Hardest
- Sign-on Letter: A Thriving Community Requires a Strong Safety Net
- Thankful for SNAP’s Role in Kentucky
- Kentucky Advocates Breathe Easier as Benefits Task Force Makes Only Minor Recommendations
- Report: Lyon Among Least Food Insecure Kentucky Counties
- Report: SNAP Reduces Food Insecurity for 11.3% of McCracken Population
- Thousands Losing SNAP Benefits
- As Task Force Considers Changing Food Assistance, New Data Shows 30,000 Kentuckians Have Already Lost Help Buying Groceries
- ‘There is a Lot of Fear’: Why Advocates Worry Kentucky Will Put Work Requirements on SNAP
- Press Release: SNAP Improves Health and Reduces Health Care Costs Across Kentucky
- Report Ranks Ohio Valley High in Childhood Obesity Amid Cuts in SNAP Benefits
- Tackling Poverty in America Means Grasping Reality
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Assistance and Government Welfare Programs
- Kentucky Can Strengthen Economic and Communities with Three Inclusive Policies for Immigrants
- Kentucky Can Strengthen Economy and Communities With Three Inclusive Policies for Immigrants
- Kentucky’s Real Minimum Wage Is Higher Than You Think. but You Still Can’t Live on It
- New Rules for Those Seeking a Green Card
- Study Shows Kentucky 8th Most Obese State
- Study: 48K Kentuckians at Risk of Losing Medicaid Under Bevin Work Requirements
- When Coal Jobs Leave and Appalachian Town, What Happens to the Mining Families Left Behind?
- Thousands of Kentuckians Could Lose Food Stamps Under Trump Plan to Tighten SNAP Rules
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Pension Reform
- Making Connections: SNAP Cuts Hurt Hungry People, Economy
- Comer on Recent House Measures: Child Abuse Prevention and Minimum Wage
- Insider News Roundup: Earnings Season Begins; Rents Keep Climbing; Paychecks Remain Flat; Westport Village Sold; and More
- Average Kentucky Worker’s Paycheck Not Yet Benefitting from Growing Economy
- Kentucky Home to Some of the Poorest Counties, But Some Say That’s Good
- Perry County Second to Last in State for Health Outcomes
- New KY Law May Keep Student Loan Debtors At Work
- Homeless, Hungry Students. We Can’t Expect Kentucky Schools to Fix This Alone
- The Trump Administration Contemplates Changing How the Poverty Level is Calculated
- More Kentuckians Turning to Food Banks for Assistance
- More than 21,000 Kentuckians Lose Food Aid Due to Work Requirement, Groups Say
- Thousands of Kentuckians Lose Food Assistance
- Work Requirements Cut SNAP Benefits in Kentucky
- New Data: 21,400 Kentuckians Have Lost Food Assistance as a Result of Barriers Erected by State
- Effects of Kentucky’s SNAP Work Requirements Studied
- Bill Would Put Giant Holes in Kentucky’s Safety Net, Groups Say
- Sign-On Letter Against House Bill 3
- Proposed Benefits Overhaul Adds New Work Requirements, Drug Tests
- Sweeping Changes Aimed at Kentucky Aid Programs Called “War on Poor”
- Bill Slashing Kentuckians’ Unemployment Insurance Benefits Advances in House
- ‘Salt in the Wounds of Laid-Off Kentuckians.’ Bill Slashing Jobless Benefits Advances.
- GOP Lawmaker, Once Unemployed, Seeks to Reduce Benefits
- It’s Time to Stop Blaming the Safety Net
- Report: Thousands Lose Access to SNAP Throughout Kentucky
- Report: SNAP E&T Program Inapt
- Report Shows Impact of SNAP Rule Changes
- Report: Locked Out SNAP Recipients Face Barriers To Returning
- New Report Shows Time Limits and Other Challenges Hinder Success of Kentucky’s SNAP E&T Program
- Income Disparity: Unemployment Rates Are Low, but NKY Has Some of Lowest Income Rates in the State
- Kentucky Groups Stand Against Attack on Immigrant Families
- Re-Instated Work Requirement Leaves Thousands of Kentuckians Without Food Assistance
- SNAP Puts Food on the Table
- County Leaders Refuse Request to Manage SNAP Program
- Thousands of Kentuckians Lose SNAP Benefits Due to Work Requirement, Report Says
- A Report Says Kentuckians Are Losing Access to Food Stamps. A Medicaid Preview?
- Kentucky Organizations Urge Protecting Food Assistance in Farm Bill
- Kentucky Poverty Rate Improving, Still Among Worst Though
- The Next Louisville: When Retirement Isn’t An Option
- To Improve Health Through Work, Kentucky Needs to Commit to Better Job Quality
- State Government Workers Retired in Droves – Not So Much with Teachers
- Down on the Farm: Anti-Poverty, Animal Advocates Fear Effects of Farm Bill
- Coalition of Kentucky Organizations Oppose Food Assistance Cuts in Farm Bill
- States Aren’t Waiting for Washington to Require Poor Residents to Work
- Mayor Fischer Blindsided Us By Supporting State’s Gang Crackdown Proposal, Critics Say
- Cuts to Kentucky Unemployment Benefits Trashed as Bill Advances in General Assembly
- SNAP Benefits for Some Recipients Become Conditional on Work Requirements
- Lawmakers Want to Slash Kentucky’s Unemployment Checks
- Census Data Shows Too Little Improvement in Poverty and Income in Kentucky to Suggest Full Recovery
- Cutting Wages No Way to Grow Kentucky’s Economy
- Income Rises for Kentucky Households in 2015 but Progress Needed to Reduce Poverty
- Press Release: New Data Show Reason for Concern about Income Inequality in Kentucky
- Statement on New Overtime Threshold Rule’s Impact on Kentucky
- Statement on Lexington Minimum Wage Ordinance Passing
- Kentucky Sees Lack of Progress in Incomes, Poverty Over Last Year
- More Than a Celebration, Labor Day a Reminder of Work Left To Do
- Family Budget Calculator Shows What it Takes to Get By Throughout Ky.
- Food Donation Tax Credit Slipped Into Last-Minute Bill in Kentucky General Assembly
- Mossotti Introduces Lexington Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Lexington Council Committee Votes to Delay Consideration of Minimum-Wage Increase Until at Least June
- City Begins Discussions on Proposal to Raise Minimum Wage to $10.10 Per Hour
- Lexington Council to Begin Discussion of Raising Minimum Wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an Hour
- Minimum Wage Bill Flounders in Senate
- Raising Kentucky’s Minimum Wage on Eastern Standard
- Ky. Minimum Wage Bill to Re-Emerge in 2015
- Louisville’s Minimum Wage Debate From the Perspectives of Business Owners and Low-Income Workers
- America’s Immigration Divide Could Have Impact on Kentucky
- Mesa’s Public Subsidies
- Kentucky Lawmakers Wrestling Over Ways to Address Heroin Epidemic
- Experts Continue to Debate Louisville Minimum Wage in Letters to Metro Council
- Increasing Louisville’s Minimum Wage Would Help Address Tale of Two Cities
- Experts Offer Range of Predictions About Louisville Minimum Wage
- A Full Day of Local Debate on the Minimum Wage, From the Left to the Right
- Jefferson Co. Minimum Wage Increase Advances
- Louisville Business Owners Push Back Against $10.10 Wage
- Report: Min Wage Bump Helps Older Workers
- Congressman John Yarmuth Puts Political Weight Behind Louisville Minimum Wage Bill
- Study: Local Minimum Wage Hike Would Benefit More Than One in Five Workers, Mostly Full-Time Adults and Women
- Louisville Metro Council to Discuss Minimum Wage Tuesday
- New Report: More than One in Five Louisville Workers Would Benefit from Proposed Minimum Wage Increase
- Census Bureau Report Shows Slight Improvement in KY Poverty Rate
- Number of Poor Kentuckians Remains High, State Still Climbing Out of Recession
- Addressing Tax Breaks on Retirement Income
- KY Minimum Wage Debate
- Minimum Wage
- State Lawmakers Rally to Raise Minimum Wage
- Child Poverty Persists
- Why Do 27 Percent of Kentucky’s Kids Live in Poverty?
- Kentucky Sees Drop in Food Stamp Recipients
- Food Stamp Use in First Decline Since Recession
- Kentucky Immigrants Are Likelier To Have a College Degree Than U.S.-Born Kentucky Residents
- “Feds Should Help” With Coalfields Transition
- Immigration Reform Would Help Kentucky, Report Says
- Report: Immigrants Contribute to Kentucky’s Economy, but Face Barriers
- War on Poverty Efforts Made Real Progress, but There Is Much Work Left to Do
- Pension System Review Could Up Taxpayers’ Costs
- More than 800 Kentucky Schools Eligible in 2014-2015 To Combat Child Hunger By Increasing School Meal Participation
- Kentucky Pension Reforms
- Appalachian Food Bank Highlights Needs of Hunger
- What Does ‘Equal Pay Day’ Mean for Kentucky Women, Especially Minorities?
- Some State Pensions in Dire Straits
- Minimum Wage
- Report: More Than Half of Kentuckians Living Paycheck to Paycheck
- Kentucky Economic Group Says Minimum Wage Boost Would Have Wide-Reaching Positive Impacts
- Speak Your Piece: Owsley County Breakdown
- Food Stamp Cut Hits Kentucky County Harder Than Most
- Minimum Wage Increase a Priority
- 53,000 Kentuckians May Lose Jobless Benefits if Congress Lets Emergency Program Expire
- Expiring Unemployment Benefits Will Affect Thousands of Kentuckians
- Federal Food Stamps Benefits Cuts Begin, Which Affects One-fifth of Kentuckians
- Stimulus Expiration Means Cuts for Food Assistance Program
- Food Stamps for Kentucky’s Fast Food Workers?
- Protecting Needy Constituents from Food Stamp Cuts
- House Bill Slashes Food Stamp Program
- KY House Members Must Reject Plan to Slash Food-Stamp Benefits
- Kentucky’s African American Disparities Continue, U.S. Census Data Shows
- Congressman John Yarmuth Lone Kentucky Lawmaker to Vote Against $40 Billion in Food Stamps Cuts
- Report: One in Six Kentucky Households Cannot Afford Healthy Food
- Showdown Over SNAP
- House GOP Ups Nutrition Cuts
- Food Aid Cuts to Hit County Soon
- New Report – 875,000 Kentuckians Will See Cuts to Their Food Assistance Benefits This Fall
- Kentucky, States Asked To Consider Bracing Food Stamp Recipients For Cuts
- Earned Income Tax Credits Help Kentucky’s Military Families
- Working Family Tax Credits Help Kentucky’s Military Families
- The Price of Poverty 2
- Healthcare Reform Helps Entrepreneurs
- Expanding Medicaid Means Improved Health and Quality of Life for Many Kentuckians
- Public Employee Pensions
- Statement: Medicaid Expansion Will Make Kentucky Healthier and Our Economy Stronger
- Louisville Non-Profit Team Receives $100,000 to Develop Civic Engagement Plan
- Questions Linger on Pension Funding
- Workers Across Kentucky’s Economy Could Gain Health Insurance through Medicaid Expansion
- Pension Bill Focuses on Wrong Issues
- Why Regions Fail
- Child Poverty Rates Follow Trend in Southeastern Kentucky
- Kentucky Among 10 States with Fastest-Growing Income Inequality
- New Study – Kentucky, Indiana in Middle Range for Income Inequality
- Kentucky Among 10 States with Fastest-Growing Income Inequality
- The Money Gap Widens in Kentucky
- New Census Data: 29,000 More Kentuckians Had Health Insurance in 2011
- Report Attacks Public Pension “Myths”
- Study Says Gap Between Private, Public Sectors Not Wide
- Public Versus Private Employee Costs in Kentucky: Comparing Apples to Apples
- Health Care Law Will Benefit Kentuckians In Many Ways
- New Data: Income Down, Poverty Up in Kentucky, Indiana
- Census Shows Shrinking Middle Class in Kentucky
- Census Data Paint Bleak Economic Picture in Kentucky
- 17.4 Percent of Kentuckians in Poverty
- New Census Data: Poverty and Uninsurance Rates Remain High in Kentucky
- KY Group–Medicare, Medicaid Plans Sever Societal Covenant
- Payday Lending is Godsend or Evil
- Proposed Cap on Payday Interest Rates Turned Down
- KY Passing Up Feds’ $90 Million Bonus Bucks for Jobless Workers?
- Kentucky to Forego $90 Million for Jobless Workers Unless Unemployment Insurance Updates Made by August
- Category: Education Press
- WKU Students Join Frankfort ‘Rally for Higher Education’
- Eastern Standard: Inadequate, Inequitable Education Funding in Kentucky
- Kentucky Ranks 8th-Worst in College Affordability, Per Report
- Kentucky Among Worst States in Nation for College Affordability, Harming Students Who Already Face the Greatest Barriers
- WKU Scholarship Changes a Positive Step
- Teacher Shortage Cause for Legislative Action
- KY Sees Decline in Per-Student State Funding
- STEM Degrees Gain Steam in Kentucky: Good for Your Kid’s Wallet, but Not Their Classroom
- Kentucky Students Are Paying More for Tuition – and It May Get Higher
- Study Ranks Kentucky College Degree Eighth Least Affordable in Nation
- State Higher Education Affordability Ranks Low
- Kentucky One of the Worst States for College Affordability
- New Study Puts Kentucky Eighth for College Unaffordability
- Kentucky Public Higher Education Affordability Ranks Low
- West Virginia and Kentucky College Students Still Struggle to Pay Back Loans
- New School Year, Tough Choices for KY Districts
- UK Outperforms University of Louisville in Competition for State Funds
- Kentucky Is Learning That You Can’t Have School Without Teachers
- Major Changes to KEES Scholarship Program Get First Approval as Concerns Linger
- Funding Gap Between Wealthy, Poor School Districts Climb Toward Pre-KERA Levels
- Kentucky Continues to Cut Funding for Education
- Higher Ed Cuts Keep Kentucky Among Worst in Nation
- Continued Higher Education Cuts Place Kentucky Among Worst in Country
- Kentucky Cuts to Higher Education Place it Among Worst in Country
- Shortchanging Our Schools
- Growth in Healthcare Jobs an Opportunity for Kentuckians
- New Report Argues for Funding Proven Strategies
- Report: Low-income, Minority Students Losing Ground at Kentucky Colleges
- State 11th Worst in Public Education Cuts, Study Says
- Beshear Admits More Funds Should Be Directed to K-12 Students
- Report: Kentucky Spending on Public Education Lower Than Recession Levels
- Report: Education Funding in Kentucky Not Keeping Up
- Fact Checking the ‘War on Coal’
- Adjusted for Inflation, Kentucky’s Per-Student Spending Has Taken a Hit
- Report: Kentucky’s School Funding Cuts Since Recession Among Deepest in the Country
- Study: Ky.’s Education Cuts Deeper Than Most
- Kentucky’s School Funding Cuts Among the Nation’s Deepest
- Education Inequality Worsening; Kentucky’s Future Jeopardized without Support for Poor Schools, Kids
- College Graduation Up in Kentucky, But Low-Income, Minority Students Struggling
- College Graduation Up in Kentucky, But Low-Income, Minority Students Struggling
- In Eastern Kentucky, Schools are Improving, but Progress ‘Painfully Slow’
- Study Says State School Funding Cuts Threaten Education, Economy
- Shortchanges Public Education; Study Shows how Funding Falls Short
- Kentucky Among States that Cut School Funds Most During Recession
- Report – Deep Cuts to Education Hurting Students and the Economy
- Kentucky—and Most States—are Spending Less Per Student Than Before the Recession, Report Says
- Kentucky’s Disinvestment in Higher Education Part of a Harmful National Trend
- KY Community College Students Need More Help
- Increase Support for KY’s Community College Students
- Crossing the Finish Line: Overcoming Barriers to Community College Degree and Credential Attainment in Kentucky
- College Graduation Gap Widens for Low-income Kentuckians
- A Rocky Appalachian Trail
- Category: Event description
- Category: Health Care Press
- Kentucky Lives and Livelihoods Are on the Line with Supreme Court Challenge to ACA
- Even Before COVID-19, Kentucky’s Uninsured Rate Was Rising. Medicaid Funding and “Welcome Mat” Approach Critical to Protecting Kentuckians in Crisis
- Kentucky Leading Among States in Medicaid Enrollment as It Works to Sign up Those Eligible
- Kentucky Jumps Back on State-Based Obamacare Exchange Bandwagon
- Gov. Beshear Urges Kentucky Employers to Offer Paid Sick Leave Amid Coronavirus Concerns
- Stay Home From Work? Many Kentuckians Can’t
- Medicaid Is Foundational for Kentucky’s Health
- Bevin’s Health Plan Was Cruel to Vulnerable Kentuckians. Beshear Was Right to End It.
- InsureKY Reacts to Withdrawal of Barriers to Medicaid
- First Approved Medicaid Work Rule on Chopping Block in Kentucky
- Gov.-Elect Beshear Says He’ll Rescind Medicaid Waiver
- Kentucky Expands Medicaid Program To Pay for Employer Coverage
- Kentucky Could Be First State To Fully Eliminate Medicaid Work Requirements
- Indiana Halts Medicaid Work Requirements In Light of Pending Lawsuits
- Report Shows Increasing SNAP Benefits Could Reduce Kentucky’s Health Care Costs
- Progress on Health Coverage in Kentucky Has Begun To Erode, According to New Data
- Deep Study Finds Only 36% Affected by Kentucky’s Proposed Medicaid Work Rule Aren’t Meeting Them Already
- Here’s a New Tool to Track Ongoing Changes to State’s Medicaid Program, Includes County Enrollment Data
- Bevin and Trump Administrations Cite SNAP Work Requirement in Push to Reverse Medicaid Ruling
- Why States Want Certain Americans to Work for Medicaid
- Arkansas Governor Vows Not to Give up on Medicaid Work Rules
- Summary Judgment: HHS Approval of Kentucky HEALTH Vacated, Again
- The Risk of Death From This Cancer Went Down in Kentucky After Medicaid Expansion
- The Risk of Death From This Cancer Went Down in Kentucky After Medicaid Expansion
- Bevin and Santorum Tout Conservative Plan to Restructure Healthcare
- Medicaid Recipients File Suit Again to Block Bevin’s Work Requirements and Premiums
- Kentucky Medicaid Fight Enters Round Two
- The Deadline to Get Health Insurance Using the Federal Marketplace Is Saturday
- Kentucky Tonight: Medicaid
- Advocates: Medicaid Waiver Could Hurt Mentally Ill, Vulnerable Populations
- Concerns Raised Over Medicaid Work Requirements
- Deadline to Sign up for Insurance on Healthcare.Gov Is Dec. 15, but Most Americans Don’t Know
- Kentucky’s Medicaid Enrollment Dips Ahead of New Rules
- Bevin Plans to Move Ahead With Medicaid Changes, but Another Court Battle Is Likely
- Local Officials Wait to Learn Kentucky HEALTH Details
- Kentucky’s Medicaid Overhaul Approved
- Insure Kentucky Releases Statement as CMS Reapproves KY HEALTH Medicaid Waiver
- Feds Back Work Requirements in Other States as Kentucky Waits
- Family History Leads Kentucky Candidates to Different Places
- Healthy Debate: Ohio Valley Health Concerns Driving Competitive Midterm Races
- Medicaid Overhaul: Will Kentucky Be the Next Arkansas?
- ‘Kentucky Is Not Arkansas.’ Arkansas Drops Thousands From Medicaid for Non-Compliance With Work Requirements
- Medicaid Work Demonstration Legal Developments: Stewart v Azar; Bevin v Stewart; Gresham v Azar
- More Kentuckians Don’t Have Health Insurance
- New Census Data Shows Progress on Health Insurance Coverage Has Stalled
- State Moves Ahead on Kentucky HEALTH Plan That Federal Judge Has vacated; Hoping for Waiver
- Analysis Shows Comments on Medicaid Proposal ‘Overwhelmingly’ Against Kentucky Health
- Report: Kentucky’s Medicaid Changes ‘Overwhelmingly’ Unpopular
- Thousands Please with the Feds to Stop Bevin’s Medicaid Overhaul
- Overnight Health Care: Comments on Kentucky Medicaid Changes Largely Negative
- A Battle Over Medicaid Coverage Takes Center Stage in Kentucky
- New Group Offers a Proposal to Save Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion
- Dozen State AGs Sue to Stop Health Plan Rule
- Kentucky Tonight: Medicaid
- In a Surprise Move, State Restores Dental, Vision Coverage for Medicaid Recipients
- Report: Thousands in KY Lost Dental, Vision Coverage After Medicaid Rollbacks
- Appointments at the Kentucky Dental Clinic Down By Half After Bevin’s Medicaid Cuts
- Kids Wrongly Denied Care Under Kentucky’s Medicaid Cuts, Dentists Say
- Kentucky Cuts Dental, Vision Coverage for Nearly 500,000 Medicaid Recipients
- Judge Blocks Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirements Hours Before Their Implementation
- Court Blocks Kentucky’s Changes to Medicaid, Including Work Requirements
- A Look at Medicaid in Kentucky
- Insure Kentucky Coalition Issues Statement on Ruling Blocking New Barriers to Medicaid Coverage
- Federal Judge Rules Against Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirements
- Official Says Medicaid Expansion Could Be Scrapped
- First, Get a Job
- As Kentucky Rushes to Remake Medicaid, Advocates Try to Protect Health Care for the Homeless
- Reports: Medicaid Proposals Jeopardize ACA Gains and Individuals’ Coverage
- Medicaid Work Requirement Will Hurt Kentucky’s Workers
- Bevin Wants Medicaid Plan to Delivery Dignity, but it May Just Punish the Poor
- Kentucky Tests How Much To Demand of Medicaid Recipients
- Medicaid Changes Require Tens of Millions in Upfront Costs
- Bevin’s Medicaid Changes Actually Mean Kentucky Will Pay More to Provide Health Care
- New Census Data Shows Continued Gains in Health Insurance Coverage Thanks to ACA
- Statement on the Failure of Health Repeal in the Senate
- Statement on Vote to Debate Health Care Repeal
- Statement on Senate Health Repeal Bill
- Statement on House Passage of Health Law Repeal
- House Health Care Bill Is an Even Worse Threat to Kentuckians
- Kentucky Tonight: Affordable Care Act
- Statement on Failure of Health Law Repeal
- Congressional Budget Office Estimates Show Health Repeal Would Cause Deep Harm
- Statement on House Health Law Repeal
- Decisions About Future of Health Law Must Be Based in Facts
- ACA Repeal Would Be Devastating in Ky.
- Cutting Back Medicaid Expansion No Solution to Budget Pressures
- New Census Data Keeps Kentucky As Top State in Health Insurance Coverage, Thanks to Medicaid Expansion
- Medicaid Expansion Allows Kentuckians to Engage their Health, Barriers Make It Harder
- Changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Put the State’s Health and Economy at Risk
- New Report Warns Against Harmful Changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion
- Statement on Dismantling of Kynect
- New Census Data Confirms ACA is Working in Kentucky
- Will Ga. Hospital Group Go to Bat for Medicaid?
- New Access to Health Care Will Be an Economic Driver
- Medicaid Expansion Leads to Booming Reimbursements, Plunging Uninsured Rate in Kentucky
- Obamacare in Kentucky
- Get Over It
- Medicaid Expansion Decision Expected from Gov. Steve Beshear on Thursday
- Decision to Expand Medicaid in Kentucky Gets Reactions from State Officials, Advocates
- More Workers Could Get Health Care if Medicaid Expands
- Thousands of Kentucky Veterans Could Get Health Insurance Under Medicaid Expansion
- Medicaid Expansion Would Help 27,000 KY Vets and Families
- Medicaid Provides for the Poorest and Sickest
- Policy Group Uses Census Data to Encourage Medicaid Expansion
- Health Care Crossroads
- Category: Jobs and the Economy Press
- Bigger and Faster: What Will Amazon Mean for Metro Des Moines Retailers?
- Ohio Valley Outlook: Expect A Slower Regional Economy in 2020
- Kentucky’s Economy Shows Some Progress Mixed With Struggles Under Governor Matt Bevin
- SOTC Panel: State of Economy in Kentucky
- How Are Kentucky Workers Faring This Labor Day?
- Terry Gill, Kentucky’s Economic Development Cabinet Secretary, Is Resigning
- Bills Would Worsen Troubles for Kentuckians Who Get Laid Off
- This Week On The Business Side What’s The Real Shape of Kentucky’s Economy
- Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Had a Very Bad Week. Blame Some of It on His Worst Enemy.
- Report: Kentucky’s Economy Not as Rosy as Suggested
- New Report Shows Kentucky’s Economic Performance Falls Short
- Bevin Says Kentucky Economy Booming Under New Laws. Job Growth Has Actually Slowed.
- Report Challenges Matt Bevin’s Claims of Economic Revival in Kentucky
- New Research: Kentucky’s Economic Performance Falls Short of Claims Based on Corporate Announcements
- State’s Labor Surplus Swelling, Data Shows
- Kentucky Tonight: Jobs and Wages
- The Problem Is Bad Jobs, Not Bad Workers
- Census Data Shows Fewer Kids in Kentucky Living in Poverty
- Welcome to the Indentured Servant Economy
- New Census Data Shows Too Many Kentuckians Still Struggling to Afford Basic Necessities
- Rural Kentucky Needs Direction, Plan for Reversing Economic Lag Behind Cities
- New Report Shows Job Growth Lagging in Rural Kentucky
- Kentucky’s Economy Improves in Cities. Rural Areas Falling Behind
- Report Shows Gaps in Kentucky’s Economy
- Report Examines Income Inequality In Kentucky
- Kentucky Resettles More Refugees Than the National Average. Here’s the Story of One
- Refugees Feel Sting of Supreme Court Ruling to Keep Trump’s Travel Ban
- Kentucky Tonight: Economy and Trade
- Job Losses, Unfair Competition: How to Address Trade Inequities
- Jobs Myth at Root of Policies Harming Unemployed
- The State of Working Kentucky 2016: Bright Spots But Still Far From Full Recovery
- Bolder Economic Solutions One Answer to the Anger
- Power+ Plan for Appalachian Renewal
- Kentucky’s Economy Continues to Reflect National Trends
- Report: Kentucky Workers Still Feeling Recession
- Low Road Economy No Path to Prosperity in Kentucky
- Support Workers to Grow KY Jobs
- EPI Study: Trade Deficit with China has Cost Kentucky 41,000 Jobs Since 2001
- Despite Figures, State’s Economy Remains Slow
- Growing Trade Deficit with China has Cost 41,100 Kentucky Jobs Since 2001
- Deep In Coal Country, Pondering Future Without It
- State Unemployment News Not All Good
- Disagreement on How to Fix Job Woes
- Report: Many in KY Still Working to Find Work
- New “State of Working” Report Finds Kentucky Still Behind in Jobs, Wages, Living Standards
- W.Va. Rages Like It’s 1984
- Report Shows Kentucky Workers Still Struggling
- Happy Labor Day! New Study Finds Kentucky Jobs Scarce, Wages Stagnant
- Eroding Wages and Continued Lack of Jobs Mark Labor Day in Kentucky
- Eroding Wages and Continued Lack of Jobs Mark Labor Day in Kentucky
- Kentucky’s Recovery Debate on KET
- Jobs and the Economy
- Anti-Poverty Plan Touted Despite Unproven Math
- Not Much to Lose in Move From Coal
- EPA’s Coal-State Impact Less Than Certain
- Report: Kentucky Adding Low Paying Jobs
- Exploiters of Job Losses Paint Wrong Picture of Cause
- Coal Man: Mining To Last Generations Here, but the Impact Will Be Less
- When the Coal Layoffs Trickle Down
- In Kentucky, Who’s to Blame for Coal’s Decline?
- Welcome to Workers’ Voice
- Assessing the SOAR Summit
- Wasteful Emissions
- Kentucky Workers Face Eroding Wages and Too Few Jobs
- Reclamation Money Could Fuel Recovery
- Kentucky’s Stake in “Too Big to Fail”
- Appalachia’s Bright Future Conference April 19-21
- Kentucky Coal Production, Employment Plummet
- Debate Continues on Kentucky’s Economic Climate
- Unemployment Up in Eastern Coal Counties; Western Counties Seeing Declines
- Kentucky Spent $1.29 Billion On Economic Development Incentives Over Last Decade
- Leaders Exchange Ideas for Transforming the Economy of Eastern Kentucky
- Nearly One-Third of Kentucky Households Had Less than $25,000 in Income in 2010
- Persistent Unemployment and Stagnant Wages Mark Labor Day 2011
- Category: Media Mentions
- COVID Relief Is Coming to the Ohio Valley. But As Hunger Persists, Did It Arrive Too Late?
- COVID-19 Relief Package Isn’t Enough to Get Kentucky Through the Pandemic
- Kentucky Is Hurting as Its Senators Limit or Oppose Federal Aid
- With Budget Talks Coming, Report Suggests New Revenue Is Needed in Kentucky
- Kentuckians Still Waiting on Unemployment Benefits After Filing in the Spring
- Kentucky Needs to “Reprogram” Computers to Pay New $300 Jobless Benefit, Beshear Says
- Latest School Choice Proposal in Kentucky Would Create “Education Opportunity Accounts”
- Kentucky’s Unemployment Insurance System Poses Problems
- What Is in the New Rescue Package Bill?
- Federal Unemployment Aid for 80,000+ Kentuckians Set to Expire After Christmas
- Kentucky’s Mountain Region Suffering with Job Losses
- How Kentucky Missed Out on a $90 Million Unemployment Upgrade
- KY Faces a Terrible COVID Christmas, Scary New Year. But ‘Freedom Fighters’ Bury Their Heads.
- Ohio Valley Economic Outlook Grim As COVID Aid Programs End
- Expiration of Pandemic-Related Benefits to Impact 100,000+ Kentuckians
- What Striking Down the ACA Would Mean in Kentucky
- U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Future of Affordable Care Act
- From Immigration to Health Care, How Will a Biden Presidency Impact Kentucky?
- Criminal Justice Reform Coalition Pushing for Changes in 2021 Legislative Session
- Should Record-High COVID-19 Cases Bring Restrictions? It’s Complicated
- Federal Ruling Allows Inmates to Get a COVID-19 Stimulus Check. But Time Is Running Out.
- State’s Incarceration Rate Remains Among Highest: Group
- More Than 1 in 3 Kentuckians on Medicaid Because of Pandemic
- A Thriving Community Requires a Strong Safety Net to Help Kentuckians Make Ends Meet
- AACS Survey: Jobs, Housing Top Concerns
- Why Kentucky Ranked 40th in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States Analysis
- Helping Refugees Adjust to Life in KY, Cope With Mental Stress
- Bevin Invokes Wimpy’s Hamburger Line in Pension Reform Lawsuit
- Kentucky Employees and Teachers Could See Health Costs Leap 50 Percent Under Budget Plan, Critic Says
- Anti-Pension Missive Does Not Compute, House Republicans Should Keep Asking Smart Questions
- Pension Letter Doesn’t Move House Members
- For Many Kentuckians, Federal Food Aid Doesn’t Stretch Far Enough
- Kentucky Kingdom Withdraws Support for Bill Banning Overtime Pay for Seasonal Workers
- Unemployed and Out of Luck. Plan Would Cut Benefits for Out-of-Work Kentuckians.
- Bevin Promised to Turn ‘Sacred Cow’ Tax Breaks into ‘Hamburger.’ Where’s the Beef?
- Paying Taxes for Essential Services is Not Bad for Kentucky
- Some Kentucky School Districts May Go Broke Before Year Ends
- How Changes To Kentucky’s Medicaid Program Could Affect Dental Care
- Kentucky Halts Applications for Film Industry Tax Credits
- Fixing State Finances Requires New Revenue
- Bevin Defends ‘Adoption Czar’ Hire, Medicaid Waiver
- Kentucky Kingdom Workers Could Lose Overtime Pay Under Senate-Backed Plan
- Report: Kentucky’s Inflation-Adjusted Per-Pupil Funding Down Since ’08
- Republicans May Reveal Their Pension Bill to Nervous Retirees as Soon as Monday
- Let’s Drop the Make-Believe on School Funding in Kentucky
- Affordable Care Act Enrollments Up in 2017 — Kentucky Has Second Greatest Percentage Increase
- Big Changes Proposed for Kentucky’s Largest College Scholarship Program
- Less Art, Music. More Fees for Students. Report Tallies Costs of Kentucky School Cuts.
- Report Highlights Impact Of Budget Cuts On Kentucky Schools, Students
- Survey Shows Cuts to Ky. School Districts Have Meant Fewer Services
- Barber: Bevin’s Proposal Would Add $500,000 to FIS Budget
- Bevin Budget Breakdown: Here’s What’s Boosted, What’s On The Chopping Block
- Activists, Educators Respond To Proposed Budget Cuts
- Kentucky HEALTH Won’t Be ‘Transformational’
- Day Care Dilemma: High Costs, Few Options Frustrate Some Parents
- Kentucky Group Criticizes Bevin’s Budget, Pushes For Tax Reform
- Lawmakers Discuss Proposed Budget Cuts
- UK Says It Could Lose Millions Under Proposed Budget
- Group Voices Kentucky Budget Concerns
- Urge Lawmakers to Support Plan to Ensure Funding for Public Education
- Could Controversial School Choice Program Be Headed to Kentucky?
- Bevin Takes $201 Million From State Workers’ Health Plan to Balance Proposed Budget
- Look Past Bevin’s Budget Spin. ‘Sacred Cows’ Escape Again, but Schools, Health Suffer.
- Kentucky’s Budget Puzzle is Missing a Huge Piece: Pension Reform
- Governor’s Budget Proposal Has Deep Cuts for Education
- Education Advocates Grade Bevin’s Budget Proposals
- School Officials Leery of Bevin Budget Proposal
- Bevin Order Would End Medicaid Expansion if Courts Block Any Part of Waiver Plan
- Bevin Orders End to Expanded Medicaid if Courts Block Work Requirement, Other Changes
- Legislation Would Allow 95 Percent Tax Credit on Donations for Private K-12 Scholarships
- Bevin Touts ‘Transformational’ Medicaid Overhaul as Critics Fear Sicker Kentuckians
- Kentucky is First State Ever to Require Medicaid Recipients to Work
- Kentucky Scores First Medicaid Work Requirement Approval
- ‘Out of Control.’ Movie, TV Incentives Approved by State Balloon to $162 Million.
- Ky. Becomes First State to Require Medicaid Recipients to Work
- Work Requirements Are Likely Coming To Kentucky’s Medicaid Program
- Difficult Budget Has Some Wary of K-12 Cuts Across Kentucky
- Report Gives Low Grade To Kentucky’s Cuts To Education
- Kentucky First to Get OK for Medicaid Work Requirement
- Kentucky Leaders on Course to Create ‘Dumberer’ Citizens Through Education Cuts
- City School Board Talks Budget Woes
- Kentucky Pension Reform Bill’s Funding Method May Kick ‘Kids in the Teeth,’ Critics Say
- Nothing is Safe as Lawmakers Slash $1 Billion From Budget
- Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Issues Preview of 2018-20 State Budget
- KCEP Finds the Wealthiest School Districts Get More Money Per Student
- Funding Gap Widens Between Kentucky’s Wealthy, Poor School Districts
- Louisville Lawmaker’s Bill Targets Job Regulations
- Kentucky Budget Cuts Could Crush School Outreach, Education Officials Say
- School District Leaders Brace for Budget Cuts
- Kentucky Advocate Says DREAM Act Would Boost Local, State Economy
- Kentucky’s Universities Brace for ‘Bigger Cuts Than They’ve Ever Seen’
- McConnell Touts Tax Bill Benefits, Skeptics See Few For Kentucky
- $10,000 Cap for State and Local Deductions in Federal Tax Bill Could Limit School Revenue Growth
- Pension Reform, Taxes and the Budget
- In This Small Kentucky Town, They Aren’t Waiting on Washington to Fix Things
- ‘Child Care Deserts’ are Leaving Rural Parents with Few Options
- Connections with Renee Shaw: Disability Rates and Benefits
- Kentucky Tonight: Federal Tax Reform
- Kentucky One of the Worst States for Cuts to Education Spending, Report Shows
- State Officials OK Millions In Taxpayer-Funded Movies In Secret
- Analysis of Proposed Pension Reform at KTRS Shouldn’t “Be Surprising to Anybody that Understands How These Proposals Work”
- “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” Would Leave Kentuckians Worse Off
- Analysis: House Tax Plan Tilts to Favor Wealthiest Kentuckians
- Central Kentucky’s Health Care Systems Investing Millions in Outcomes
- Closing This Tax Loophole Would Bring Kentucky Billions. Will You Have to Pay More?
- Feds Will Allow Medicaid Work Requirements. Here’s What It Means For Kentucky
- U.S. House Tax Plan Benefits Only Wealthiest Kentuckians
- Will Kentucky’s Pension Crisis Cripple Regional Universities and Community Colleges?
- Bill to Save Kentucky’s Pensions Finally Released, but Success Remains Doubtful
- Congress Moves to Fund Children’s Health Insurance, But At Others’ Expense
- Changes Likely to Bevin’s Plan, GOP Leaders Predict
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Employee Pensions
- Three Interesting Things From the Draft Version of the Pension Reform Bill
- Gov. Bevin Makes a Case That 401(k)-Style Pension Plans Can Be a Better Deal for Teachers
- Bevin’s Pension Bill Has a Few Surprises, Such as Where That 3 Percent Pay Cut Goes
- Gov. Matt Bevin’s Pension Proposal Is Out. Here’s How It Will Affect Kentuckians
- Kentucky Pension Reform: Massive Bill Released for Lawmakers’ Scrutiny
- OPINION: Additional Contribution for Retiree Health Benefits an Unnecessary Wage Cut
- Ky. Needs a Break From Tax Breaks
- About That 3 Percent ‘Pay Cut’ in Pension Plan? Teachers, Workers Say They’re Stumped.
- How Developers of Lexington’s Flashiest Mall Got a Tax Break Meant for Blighted Areas
- Would Federal Tax Proposal on 401(k)s Undercut Bevin’s Plan?
- Kentucky Pension Reform: Will Plan Make it Harder to Attract Teachers?
- State Can Mitigate Pension Problem by Paying What it Promised
- Kentucky Awards $5 million a Month to Low-Budget Films. What Do We Get in Return?
- States’ Answer to Rising Health-Care Costs for Employees? You Pay for It.
- Kentucky Taxpayers Should Question GOP Pension Plan. Here’s Why.
- Bevin Says Kentucky Pension Reform Plan Will Make 2018 Budget Session ‘Brutally Difficult’
- Pension Reform Plan Calls for Current Benefit Caps After 27 Years, 401(k)-Style Accounts for Most Future Public Workers in Kentucky
- Kentucky Pension Crisis: Bevin Plan Would Move Workers to 401(k)-Like Plans
- Spike In Kentucky Disability Benefits Aided By Aging Baby Boomers
- Beshear Says He’ll Sue Trump For Cutting Obamacare Subsidies
- Trump’s Order to Cut Health Insurance Funds Will Drive Up Costs for Thousands in Kentucky
- Kentucky AG Joins Suit Challenging Trump’s Health Care Order
- Kentucky’s Pension Crisis Threatens State Funding
- Louisville Forum Holds Debate for Solutions to Kentucky’s Public Pension Problem
- Kentucky Tonight: Tax Policy
- Pension Reform Forum Tuesday
- Obamacare Changed Their Lives. Now These Kentuckians Worry They’ll Lose Coverage.
- Here’s Some of What Bevin Wants to See in Pension Reform
- Kentucky Sends an Ominous Signal About The Future of Medicaid
- Healthy Times: Episode 30
- How Repealing Obamacare Would Affect This Louisville Family
- Graham-Cassidy Comes Under Fire In Kentucky
- Why Senate GOP Health Plan is Bad for America, Worse for Kentucky
- Ky. Legislators Give Away Billions in Tax Exemptions
- Kentucky’s Public Pension Faces Very Real Challenges Not Met by Switching to 401Ks
- A Dream Deferred: DACA Recipients in Limbo While Congress Debates
- Kentucky Pension Crisis: Are 401(k) Plans the Solution?
- Bevin Calls For Phasing Out Individual Income Tax
- What Does Tax Reform Mean to Bevin? Business Leaders Get a Sneak Peek.
- Kentucky Leads Nation in Decrease of Those Without Insurance
- Kentucky Posts Fourth-Biggest Drop in Uninsured Rate Since Obamacare Coverage Expansion
- Forward KY – Pension Podcast
- Bevin Seeks 17.4 Percent Budget Cuts to Deal with Expected $200 Million Shortfall
- State Agencies Must Cut Budgets by 17% to Avoid $200M Shortfall, Bevin Says
- Pensioners Not to Blame for Kentucky’s Predicament
- Kentucky Isn’t the Only State with a Pension Crisis. Here’s How Others Coped.
- Making Workers Pay for Politicians’ Mistakes isn’t the Only Way to Fix Pensions
- What are Key Players Saying About a Consultant’s Proposals to Fix the Pension Crisis?
- Kentucky Group Cautions Against 401(k) Pension Fix
- Report: Kentucky’s Per-Student Higher Education Budget Cuts Since Great Recession Amongst 10 Worst
- In This College Ranking, Kentucky is Among the 10 Worst
- State’s Higher Ed Funding Cuts Among Worst
- Report Shows Deep Cuts to University Funding
- Kentucky’s Pension Crisis Can’t Be Solved with 401(k) Plans, Group Says
- Ky. Public Pension Coalition Cautions Against Moving New State Hires to 401(k)-Style Pensions
- Workers Speak Out Against Governor’s Pension Reform Plan
- Bevin’s Pension Crisis Website Sets Kentucky’s Debt Way Too High, Advocates Say
- Bevin Launches Pension Crisis Information Website
- Health Secretary Says ‘No One is Going to be Pushed off Medicaid,’ but Plan Says Fewer Will Have It, and Has Pitfalls to Lose Coverage
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Pensions
- How The Plan To Cut Immigration In Half Could Hurt Kentucky’s Economy
- Ford’s Louisville Plants Reach Highest Employment in at Least Two Decades
- Executive Action On Healthcare? Paul Sounding Confident
- Reforming the Tax Code
- Bevin Wants to Deal with Pension Crisis, Tax Reform Separately
- We’re Ready to Work with McConnell to Improve Health Care
- KET: Areas of Conflict and Compromise in State Tax Reform
- Indivisible Group Eyes Common-Sense Tax Reform
- Medicaid Cuts Loom – Even Without ACA Repeal
- Feeling Pain: 500K Kentuckians Could Lose Coverage with ACA Repeal
- Waiver Tweaks Likely To Further Shrink Medicaid Rolls
- Can Public Pension Benefits Be Cut? Kentucky Officials Looking Into It
- In Kentucky, Competing Narratives Complicate Healthcare Debate
- City, Pro Soccer Club Kicking Around Public Costs of Butchertown Stadium Deal
- McConnell’s Health Plan Will Hurt Kentuckians More Than Most
- McConnell’s Health Gambit Ripples in Kentucky
- McConnell Says His Bill Wouldn’t Take Anyone off Medicaid, Critics of the Bill Say It Would
- Republican Medicaid Cut in Kentucky Would Slash 9,000 More People From Health Coverage
- Frailty of State IT System Prompts Bevin’s Latest Medicaid Request
- Bevin Revises Medicaid Plan, Seeks to Reduce Kentucky’s Rolls by Another 9,000 People
- Kentucky Labor Cabinet Expanding Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Rand Paul Says He’d Be Closer to Backing Health Care Bill with Fixes on Association Plans
- Kentucky Seeks Stricter Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees
- Bevin Proposes Money-Saving Changes To Medicaid Waiver; More Would Lose Benefits
- Medicaid Changes Could Save Kentucky Money; Others to Lose Benefits
- Under Senate Health Bill, A Rural Vs. Urban Divide Is Exacerbated
- CBO: Health Care Bill to Create 22 million More Uninsured
- Amid Health Care Debate, Kentucky Overdose Deaths Surge
- Kentucky Tonight: State Tax Reform
- Sen. McConnell, Don’t Cut the Lifeline
- Protesters Rail Against McConnell’s Health Plan in Kentucky Capitol
- Republican Senators Release Health-Care Bill to Cut Medicaid
- McConnell, Paul Find Themselves on Opposite Sides as Senate Health Care Bill Heads to a Vote
- Kentucky Senators Take Leading Roles In High-Stakes Healthcare Debate
- Kentucky Tonight: The American Health Care Act
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Employee Pensions
- What The Drop in Unemployment Means–Or Doesn’t Mean–For Kentucky
- President’s Budget Slashes Critical Assistance for Kentuckians
- How Trump’s Budget Could End Up Hurting Poor Kentuckians
- Medicaid Expansion Successes
- Trump Budget Would Harm Kentuckians, Push Massive Costs onto State
- Proposed Medicaid Cut’s Impact in Eastern Kentucky
- Trump Budget Cuts Would Hit Trump Country Hardest
- Sacred Cows and Secret Deals
- Programs That Help Poor Kentuckians Face Big Cuts Under Trump’s Budget Plan
- Medicaid Enrollees in State Concerned About Future
- Many Might Lose Coverage if Ky. Charges Medicaid Premiums, Study Suggests
- Hey, Moms, You’re on Your Own
- Tax Shortfall Signals Need For Reform
- Kentucky Tonight: Tax Reform
- Kentucky Has A History With High-Risk Health Insurance Pools. It Isn’t Good.
- How Kentucky’s Advocacy Groups are Reacting to U.S. House Passage of AHCA
- Kentucky’s Weak Jobs Outlook Might Bring Budget Cuts
- Kentucky Set to Surpass Its Record for Business Investments
- The Effect of Trump’s Tax Plan on Kentucky: It Varies
- Lexington Town Hall is a Sea of Discontent
- Mind The Gap: Why The ‘Wage Gap’ Still Divides Us On Payday
- Consumption Based Taxing Structure Would be “Tax Shift” Not Tax Reform, KCEP Says
- What Is Tax Reform And Why Does Gov. Bevin Want It?
- Top Kentucky Newspapers Consistently Reported On The Substance And Impact Of Kentucky’s Medicaid Waiver
- Taxing Grocery Purchases Tough Sale
- Commentary: Adding Sales Tax to Groceries Would Hurt Low-Income Families, Weaken Revenue Growth
- Tax Reform Discussion
- State Leaders Float The Idea Of A Constitutional Convention
- 3-Day Pain Pill Limit Heads to Gov. Bevin
- Money Model: Performance-based Funding Would Harm WKU
- Myth and Facts about the ACA
- Trump Heads to Kentucky for Health Care Push
- Charter School Measures Now in Place, but Questions About Funding Remain Unresolved
- KY Undocumented Immigrants Pay $36.6m in State, Local Taxes; Reform Could Increase
- Trump Brings Health Care Debate Back to Kentucky
- The American Health Care Act Would Effectively Eliminate the Medicaid Expansion
- Bevin Administration Not Estimating GOP Health Bill’s Impact
- Insurance Experts: Replacement Plan Harms Many, Helps Few
- Post-ACA Predictions For Kentucky At Odds
- Reopening The Constitution: Panacea Or Pandora’s Box?
- Pence Pitches GOP Repeal Plan
- CBO Report: KY Pays Price Under Congress’ Health Plan
- Program Guides At-Risk College Students
- Charter School Bill May Be Stalled in Kentucky Legislature
- Temporary Work: A Growing Industry Leaving Some Workers Behind
- After Obamacare: Thousands Of Jobs Hinge On Affordable Care Act Decisions
- Charter Bill Would Put Public Schools At Risk Statewide
- Where’s the Ambition For Education?
- Louisville Police Chief Says Convicted Felons are ‘Coming Back Too Quickly’
- Despite Bevin Warning, 40 Tax Cuts Proposed
- Message to KY Politicians: Keep Welcoming Refugees and Immigrants
- Students Rally Against Higher Education Cuts
- Lawmakers Want to Boost Fines For Rogue Payday Lenders by 500 Percent
- WKU Students Rally for Higher Ed Funding in Frankfort
- Bevin’s Tax Reform Push Already Fueling Debate
- NKP Focuses on Information and Grassroots Campaigning
- Study Says Repeal of ACA Would Cost Kentucky Nearly 56,000 Jobs
- Movement to Let States Rewrite the U.S. Constitution Comes to Kentucky
- Talk of Obamacare Repeal Alarms Kentuckians
- Kentucky Tax Reform Needed, But Beware of Paths Taken by Kansas, North Carolina
- Kentucky Student Body Presidents Defend Higher Education
- Officials, Consumers Debate Affordability of Affordable Care
- Bevin Must Consider High Cost of Low Wages
- Residents Decry Loss of Obamacare
- Lawmakers Must Focus on Ways to Increase Workers’ Wages
- State Pulling Workers out of 31 Unemployment Offices Amid Major Cuts
- Lawmakers Add Rare Saturday Session in Frankfort
- Right-to-Work Bill Gaining Steam; Final Passage Expected Saturday
- Right-to-Work Bill Passes House Panel
- Right-to-Work, Prevailing Wage Bills Set For House Vote After Clearing Committee on Partisan Votes
- Despite Union Jeers, Right to Work, Prevailing Wage Repeal Fast-Tracked for Saturday Vote Passage
- State House Committee Passes ‘Right to Work’ Bill, Repeal of Prevailing Wage in Party-Line Votes
- Kentucky Republicans Poised To Pass Right-To-Work Law, Delivering Blow To Unions
- House Committee Passes Contentious Right-to-Work Bill; Floor Vote Expected This Week
- House Committee Passes Right to Work Bill
- Bevin, GOP Lawmakers Push Anti-Union Bills as Angry Workers Chant in Hallways
- Kentucky’s Tax Code Gives More Money Than It Collects. Would Reform Change That?
- Op-Ed: Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Worsen Job Quality, Harm Kentucky Economy
- Commentary: Plan to Cut Taxes at Top, Increase Revenue Both Misguided and Dangerous
- Economist, Big Donor Laffer to Meet With Bevin
- Breaking Cultural Barriers: Stories of Immigrants Who Now Call Kentucky Home
- Why Kentucky Ranks Third In The Nation For Student Loan Defaults
- In Life After Coal, Appalachia Attempts to Reinvent Itself
- Kentucky University Funds May Be Based in Part on Number of Degrees
- Kentucky Tonight: Tax Reform
- Report: State’s School Budget Cuts Nation’s Third-Worst
- Medicaid Waiver Critics Still Concerned That Proposal Will Get Rejected By Federal Government
- Barr-Kemper Debate Highlights Myth About Minimum Wage, Which Should Be Raised
- Kentucky’s Total K-12 Funding Per-Student is Down Eight and a Half Percent
- Too Many Students Can’t Pay For College. So UK is Making a Major Change to Help
- Public Comments on Bevin’s Medicaid Plan Can Continue Until Feds Issue Final Decision
- Kentucky Supreme Court Strikes Down Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Kentucky Continues Decline as One of Worst States for K-12 Core Funding
- One Bourbon, One Strike and No Fear: Jim Beam Workers Win a Better Contract
- Report Shows K-12 Funding in Kentucky Slipping
- Kentucky Continues Decline as One of Worst States for K-12 Core Funding, Report Says
- State Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisville, Lexington Minimum Wage Increases
- What Striking Down Louisville Wage Law Means
- Kentucky Court Strikes Down Louisville’s Minimum Wage Hike
- High Court Rules Louisville Minimum Wage Ordinance Unconstitutional
- Kentucky Supreme Court Strikes Down Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Kentucky Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisville Metro Minimum Wage Law
- Kentucky Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisville Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Kentucky Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Raising Louisville’s Minimum Wage
- Fischer Miffed as Minimum Wage Law Struck Down
- Why The Jim Beam Strike Matters Nationally
- 90% of Public Comments Opposed Bevin’s Medicaid Plan
- Now That The Comment Period Is Closed, What’s Next For Kentucky Medicaid?
- Kentuckians Voice Concerns Over Medicaid Changes as Comment Period Closes
- Kentucky Tonight: Jobs and Wages
- WKU Could Receive Refund After Court Ruling
- Kentucky has Third Highest Student Default Rate for Second Straight Year, New Data Shows
- Democrats Cap Off Drama by Calling for $4.6 million in School Funding
- Medicaid Forums Allow Kentuckians to Voice Concerns on Proposed Changes
- Health Coalition Invites Public to Learn About, Comment on Medicaid Proposal
- Rural Areas Are in Critical Need of Technological Infrastructure
- Like Other States, Kentucky Should Look to Hospitals, Tobacco Tax to Fund Medicaid Expansion
- Census: Louisville Income Levels Up 6%
- Census: Incomes Continue To Climb In The Commonwealth
- Income Up in KY, but Poverty Rate Remains Among Highest in Nation
- Kentucky Makes Strides in Income, Health Coverage and Education, Census Data Shows
- Bevin Medicaid Plan Debated at Forum
- Proposed Medicaid Changes Could Affect More Than 1 Million Kentuckians
- Kentucky’s Uninsured Rate Down to 6% and Obamacare Gets The Credit
- Kentucky’s Gender Wage Gap Is Narrowing, Report Says
- Challenges Persist for Many in Kentucky Labor Market
- Frustrated by Kentucky’s Lack of Better Jobs and Higher Wages? Here’s Why
- New Minimum Wage Good, But Not Enough
- Gov. Bevin Submits Medicaid Overhaul Plan to Feds, With Some Changes
- Bevin Administration Submits Final Medicaid Changes To Feds
- Bevin Submits Revised Waiver
- Bevin Submits Medicaid Plan That Restores Allergy Testing
- Controversial Parts of Medicaid Plan Remain
- Gov. Bevin Submits Medicaid Waiver Plan to Feds with Few Changes
- Bevin Submits Updated Medicaid Plan to Federal Government
- Kentucky Wasting Money on Ineffective Business Incentives
- Commentary: Five Major Challenges Facing Kentucky College Students in 2016
- Bevin’s Medicaid Proposal Will Change, Health Secretary Says
- Report: Kentuckians Not Saving Enough for Retirement
- Trading Places: Neighboring Companies On Opposing Sides Of Free Trade Debate
- Kentucky Should Enact State-Sponsored Retirement, New Report Says
- Nearly Half of Working Kentuckians Lack Access to a Retirement Account at Place of Business
- Kentucky’s Medicaid Ultimatum Threatens Beneficiaries’ Health
- Should Kentucky Repeal The Inheritance Tax?
- Bevin Extends Public Comment Period on Medicaid Proposal
- Still Time to Comment on Bevin Medicaid Plan
- Kentucky Reopens Medicaid Waiver Comment Period
- Study: More Kentuckians Sought Care After Medicaid Expansion
- Gov. Bevin Delays Applying For Medicaid Waiver
- Refugees Fare Well Long-Term In The U.S., New Study Finds
- Ideas Roll In for Bevin’s Red Tape Initiative
- Benefind Woes Continue, Lawmakers to Get Update
- Kentucky Medicaid Program At A Crossroads
- Final Hearing on Bevin’s Proposed Medicaid Overhaul Attracted Room Full of People in Hazard
- Critics Blast Medicaid Plan at Hazard Hearing
- Bevin Wants Help Trimming 4,500+ Business Regs
- Bevin Announces Review of Business Regulations
- Proposed Medicaid Overhaul Meets Opposition at Hazard Forum
- At Third and Final Medicaid Hearing, Eastern Kentucky Residents Say Plan Doesn’t Match Up With the Realities of Their Region
- What Happens If Bevin Repeals Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion?
- Friday Marks First Phase Of Lexington Minimum Wage Hike
- Louisville’s Minimum Wage Goes Up Friday
- Metro Louisville’s Minimum Wage Set to Jump to $8.25 an Hour Friday
- Fayette County’s Minimum Wage Increases to $8.20 Friday
- Louisville’s Minimum Wage to Go Up Friday
- As Bevin Changes Medicaid In Kentucky, A Mixed Response
- Bevin Officials to Talk Medicaid at Forum
- Storm Clouds Gather Around Ky. Medicaid Plan
- Governor Takes Aim at Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Program
- Future Now Uncertain for Thousands of Immigrants
- In Kentucky, The 1 Percent Are Getting Richer
- Average Income for Top 1 Percent of Kentuckians Continues to Rise While Dropping for All Others
- Income Inequality Growing in Kentucky
- Report: Kenton Co. Has Highest Income Inequality in Kentucky
- Louisville’s Top Earners Make Nearly 20 Times The Average Income, New Report Says
- Kentucky Tonight: Jobs and Wages
- Study: Fewer Kentuckians Receiving Cash Assistance Since Welfare Reform
- EKY Health and Wealth Expands with ACA, Medicaid
- Kentucky Among Worst in the Country in Continuing Higher Education Budget Cuts
- KY Among States with Biggest Cuts to Higher Ed Funding
- Kentucky Ranks Sixth From Bottom in State Higher Education Cuts Since Great Recession
- Report Warns About Impact of Bevin’s Proposed Medicaid Changes
- Kentucky’s Higher Education Budget Cuts Remain Among Highest in the Country
- Higher Education Funding Cuts Push Kentucky Down National Rankings
- Kentucky Has One of the Worst-Funded Higher Ed Systems in the Country
- Student Voice | Students Win at Legislature
- With Veto, Need-based Scholarships Still Millions Short of “Powerball Promise”
- Budget Will Hobble Kentucky
- State Park Repairs Not Among Vetoes
- University of Louisville Tuition Increase for Next School Year Capped at 5 Percent
- Building to the Future
- Tuition Increases Capped at 4.6 to 6.1 Percent for Kentucky Schools
- Ky.’s Unprecedented Success In School Funding Is On The Line
- One-to-One with Bill Goodman
- Financial Aid For Up to 30,000 Restored at the Wire
- Louisville Is Behind The Curve In Public School Funding
- Biennial Budget, Road Plan on Path to Governor’s Desk After Passing House, Senate
- Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Faces Lawsuit Over Unprecedented Higher Education Cuts
- Three Kentucky Representatives Ask to Join AG Beshear’s Lawsuit on Higher Education Cuts
- Governor Bevin Vetoes Seven Bills, Including Parts of Judicial Budget
- Trio of Democratic Lawmakers Join Suit Against Gov. Bevin’s Higher Education Cuts
- Bevin’s Five Veto Actions Most in 16 Years
- Louisville In Bottom 10 Nationally For Life Expectancy Among Poor
- After Success with Expungement Legislation Unlikely Allies Might Look at Penal Code Reforms Next
- No Excuse For Not Agreeing on a Budget
- Budget Talks Stall on Pensions, Higher Ed as Deadline to Pass Budget in Time to Override Vetoes Expires
- Kentucky Politics Distilled: Final Budget Negotiations Begin
- Once This Bad State Budget is Finished, Kentuckians Must Demand Tax Reform
- House Budget Realistic for Kentucky
- House Democrats Move To Keep State Health Exchange Alive
- Senate Expungement Bill Includes a Too-Long Wait, Too-High Fees
- Kentucky’s Healthcare Industry Sees Major Growth Spike in 2015, Recent Data Shows
- New Data Show Health Care Jobs Grew In Kentucky Last Year
- Battle to Halt Rollback of Kynect, Medicaid Expansion is About the People, Former Gov. Beshear Says
- Consumers Seek to Save Ky Health Expansion
- Column: Ky. Needs Tax Reform to Support Pension Reform
- Lawmaker: Only Working Farms Should Get Farmland Preservation Tax Break
- Kentucky Tonight: State Budget
- 10-acre Lawns Get Benefit Meant for Working Fayette County Farms
- Bevin’s Budget Slashing Kentucky’s Future
- Budget Should Address Liabilities and Invest in Future
- Advisers: U.S. Economy to Grow Modestly, Though Recession Risk Increasing
- Higher Ed Advocates: Stop Swiping Lottery Dollars from Scholarships
- Where has Kentucky’s Spending Ability Gone?
- Kentucky Tonight: Minimum Wage
- Outside Groups Advocate for Tax Reforms as Legislature Faces Austere Budget
- Years of Constant Budget-Cutting Show Kentucky Needs More Revenue
- Gov. Matt Bevin to Study Possibility of Tax Reform
- Coalition “Together” on Need for More $$ in KY
- School Board Analyzes SEEK Funding
- Kentucky Can Take More Balanced Approach to Tight Budget with New Revenue Options
- Retroactive GEDs Possible for Hundreds in Ky.
- Richards: Budget Cuts ‘Unacceptable’
- Governor Bevin Proposes Cuts to Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet
- Bevin’s Budget Bill Cuts Money for Planned Parenthood, Suspends Prevailing Wage
- Bevin’s Budget Won’t Satisfy His Ambitions
- Bevin Proposes Spending $59 million of Lottery Money on New Workforce Development Scholarship
- Debrief of Governor Bevin’s Budget
- Bevin’s Budget Spares K-12 schools, Cuts Higher Education
- Governor Prepares to Unveil His Budget Plan
- Budget Will Show What Kind of Governor Bevin Wants to Be
- Concern Mounts as Budget Day Looms
- Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Benefits Everyone. Why mess with it?
- Kentucky Advocates Defend Health Insurance Marketplace
- Kentucky Tonight: RTW and Prevailing Wage
- Column: Bill Would Expunge Low-Level Felony Records
- Expungement Bill Gets Support in House
- House Panel Approves Bill to Expunge Some Felony Records
- Kentucky, Once an Obamacare Exchange Success Story, Now Moves to Shut it Down
- Attorney General Andy Beshear says Gov. Bevin’s Decision to End Kynect ‘Bad Deal’ for Consumers
- Bevin’s Plan to Dismantle Kynect Moves Forward
- Kentucky Moves Ahead with Plans to Dismantle Health Exchange
- Bevin Notifies Feds He’ll Dismantle Kynect
- Bevin Notifies Federal Government He’ll Dismantle Kynect
- Kentucky ‘Smart on Crime’ Coalition Ready to Engage Legislature on Felony Expungement Legislation
- Magic Math Won’t Solve Revenue Woes
- 2016 General Assembly to Deal with Ambitious New Governor, Same Old Money Problems
- Billions in Pension Debt Mean Budget Cuts
- After GED Test Revamp, Graduates Fall by 77%
- Bevin Orders Marriage License Changes; Reverses Beshear on Felon Voting Rights, Minimum Wage
- Bevin Rescinds Voting Rights to Ex-Felons, Changes Kentucky Marriage Licenses
- Gov. Bevin Rescinds Beshear’s Action on Felon Voting Rights
- Report: GED Takers Tumble After Update
- Report: Fewer Kentuckians Getting a GED Due to More Rigorous Standards
- Can Kentucky’s New Governor Undo Obamacare?
- Corrections Reforms can Save Kentucky Needed Cash, Public Advocate Says
- Report: State’s School Funding Cuts Among Nation’s Worst
- Kentucky Education Funding Drops 12 Percent Over Four Years
- Report: Education Funding Dropped 12.1 percent per Student in Ky. After Recession
- How A $15 Minimum Wage Took Over The Democratic Party
- Report Shows Special Interests Prioritized Over Our Commonwealth
- Pension Group Providing Options for Legislators
- State Leaders Talk Kentucky Teachers’ Pension Solutions, To No Avail
- Many Kentuckians on Medicaid Work for Low Pay
- Lexington Raises Minimum Wage
- Council Has Done its Homework, Time is Now for Lexington to Raise Minimum Wage
- New Coverage is Making a Difference in Kentucky
- Kentucky Counties with Highest Medicaid Rates Backed Matt Bevin, Who Plans to Cut Medicaid
- Pushback on Bevin’s Plans for Medicaid
- 3 Industries Affected Most by Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion
- Newly Elected Kentucky Governor May Roll Back ACA
- Minimum Wage Measure Heads to Vote
- Conflicting Jobs Numbers Cited by Conway and Bevin Reflect Divergence of Federal Employment Surveys in Kentucky
- Wages Play Key Role As Louisville Seeks To Boost Workforce
- Candidates Vague on How They Will Balance Budget
- Kentucky Student Loan Default Rates Among Highest In Nation
- Kentucky Has Third-Highest College Student Loan Default Rate in the Country
- Census Data Show Black Income Levels Plummet in Kentucky
- Census Shows Prosperity Gap Widening in KY
- Kentuckians Earned Less In 2014, Census Shows
- Black Income Levels Plummet 11 Percent in Ky.
- Center: Drop in Kentucky’s Uninsured Rate Leads Nation
- Kentucky’s Drop in Rate of Uninsured People Leads the Nation in New Census Report
- Report: Ky. Sees Biggest Drop in Uninsured
- U.S. Census Shows Kentucky Had the Largest Uninsured Rate Decrease in 2014
- Despite Stark Financial Outlook, Kentucky Gubernatorial Candidates Say Little About Taxes
- S&P Downgrade of Kentucky to Increase State’s Borrowing Costs, Heighten Urgency of Addressing Pension Crisis
- Pension Debt Lowers Kentucky Credit Rating
- Mapping Child Poverty in Louisville Metro
- Florida’s Governor Wants To Recruit Kentucky Businesses
- Kentucky Has Given $830 Million in Economic Development Tax Incentives to Companies Since 2012
- KTRS Has Healthy Return, but Many Issues Remain
- Cost of Living High in Ashland
- Making Ends Meet: Group’s Family Budget Calculator Breaks Down Monthly Costs for NKy, Other Regions
- Cost for Ky. Family of Four? How About $57,763
- Here’s How Much Money You Need To Earn To Get By In Louisville And Surrounding Cities
- Do You Make Enough to “Get By” in Kentucky?
- Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Low Wages, Lack of Opportunity
- Kentucky Tonight: Jobs and Wages
- As Medicaid Turns 50, Nearly a Million Kentuckians are Covered
- The Tangled Web of State Tax Reform
- Kentucky Finishes Fiscal Year With Budget Surplus
- Good for a Rainy Day: State’s Emergency Fund Grows as Shortfalls Remain
- Kentucky’s Rainy Day Fund at Highest Level Since 2008
- Kentucky Tonight: Tax Reform
- A $10.10 Minimum Wage is Not the Same as a Living Wage
- Kentucky General Fund Receipts Increase 5.3 percent in FY2015, Exceeding Estimate by $165 million
- Exceeding Expectations, Kentucky Has $165.4 Million Budget Surplus
- Kentucky’s Revenues Are Up 5 Percent for the Year, but Road Fund is Down and Pensions in Shortfall
- Louisville’s New Minimum Wage Could Have an Impact Across the South
- Louisville Sets Up Hotline to Catch $7.75 Minimum Wage Scofflaws
- Louisville’s Minimum Wage Hike Could Be An Example Through the South
- Public Employee Pensions: Where Will the Money Come From?
- Appeals Court Won’t Stop Minimum Wage Hike
- How Raising the Overtime Salary Threshold Could Affect Kentucky
- How Would New Overtime Rules Affect Kentucky?
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Employee Pensions
- Court Sides with Louisville in Minimum Wage Case
- Jefferson County Judge Upholds Louisville Metro Minimum Wage Ordinance
- Minimum Wage Ordinance Upheld by Judge
- Louisville’s Minimum Wage Hike Survives First Court Test
- Lexington Council Committee Puts Proposed Minimum Wage Increase on Hold
- States Moving College Scholarship Money Away from the Poor, to the Wealthy and Middle Class
- Kentucky Retail Federation Issues New Jobs Numbers
- Ruling in Minimum Wage Suit Likely Before July 1
- Beshear Orders Minimum Wage for Executive Branch Workers Raised to $10.10 Hourly
- Gov. Beshear Signs Executive Order Raising Minimum Wage to $10.10 for State Workers and Contractors
- Gov. Beshear Raises Minimum Wage For 800 Kentucky State Employees
- Reaction to Beshear Move on Minimum Wage
- Gov. Beshear Sets New Minimum Wage for State Employees
- Kentucky’s Economy is Rebounding for Some, KCEP Finds
- Jobless Rate in April Falls to Lowest Since 2001
- Kentucky’s Funding for Higher Education Among Worst in the Nation, KCEP Director Says
- Ky.’s Fraud Backlog Imperils Food Stamp Fund
- Looming Trade Deficit May Cloud Kentucky’s Sunny Economy
- As State Cuts Funds, Growth in Graduation Rates at Kentucky’s Colleges Declines Sharply
- Report: Kentucky Has Highest Per-Student Cut to Higher Education Spending in the Country
- Minimum Wage Hike – Will Lexington Be Next?
- Right-to-Work Laws Worsen Jobs For All
- Most Kentucky Counties Have Fewer People With Jobs Than in 2007
- ‘Right to Work’ is Wrong for Kentucky
- GC Fiscal Court Denies Right to Work Ordinance
- Right to Work, Right or Wrong?
- Kentucky Would Gain Little from Estate Tax Repeal
- Kentucky’s Economic Future Relies on Bold Action
- Will Kentucky’s New Angel Investor Tax Credit Lead to Jobs?
- If Congress, State Won’t Raise Minimum Wage, Lexington Should
- Christie Pension Fix Not a New Idea, But Ups Ante
- Late-night Vote Keeps Ky. Gas Taxes Steady
- ANALYSIS: How Gas Tax Bill Was Passed
- Louisville’s Road Funds Set To Take Huge Hit if Frankfort Fails to Act on Gas Tax
- Schedule Hearing on Minimum Wage
- New MACED President Says Timing Right for New Ideas in Eastern Kentucky
- Report Finds Kentucky Lagging in Jobs, Wages, Living Standards
- Poll: Most Voters Want $10.10 Minimum Wage
- Report Details Workers’ Plight
- This Labor Day, Some Reflections on Ways to Reward Those Who Work for a Living
- Bluegrass Poll: Most Kentuckians Support Hiking Minimum Wage
- State Budget and Tax Reform
- Kentucky Revenues To Fall Short for Budget Year
- Weaknesses Remain, Despite Better Numbers
- Category: Op-Eds
- Kentucky Must Remove the Roadblocks to Unemployment Insurance — Our Most Important Economic Stabilizer
- Many Kentuckians Face Hunger and Hardship This Thanksgiving. They Need Relief.
- 95 Organizations Across Kentucky Agree: We Need a Safety Net That Works for Us, Not Against Us
- Alternative Pension Plan Is Much Better Than Governor’s
- Kentucky Needs a New Economic Agenda
- Two Steps to a Better Budget this Session
- Kentucky Groups Reject Senate Tax Plan
- Federal Tax Reform Plans Will Help the Wealthy, Lead to Program Cuts and Deepen Poverty
- Cassidy-Graham is the Greatest Threat to Kentucky’s Coverage Yet
- Consumer Not King – Rand Paul’s Association Plans Worsen Protections
- McConnell’s Health Plan Would Wreak Havoc on Kentucky
- Principles for a Tax Reform Plan
- Leaked ACA Repeal Plan Is Radical and Dangerous
- Minimum Wage Action Should Be at Top of General Assembly Agenda
- Budget Must Invest in Kentucky’s Economy Today
- Three Questions About the Governor’s Budget
- Celebrating Medicaid at 50
- Kentucky Workers Need Better Trade Policies, Not Worse
- Urge Congress To Support Mothers With Tax Credits Extension
- Category: Press Releases
- Category: Workforce and Economic Development Press
- Category: Research
- More Than 3,400 Struggling Parents Denied Food Assistance for Falling Behind on Child Support
- State Task Force Learns About Benefits Cliff: ‘the Government Is Effectively Holding Him Back’
- Mirage of Inflation-Driven Surpluses Is No Basis for Permanent Tax Cuts
- Louisville Businesses That Survived the Pandemic Face Inflation and a Likely Recession
- Kentucky Tonight: Inflation and the Economy
- The Devastating Economic Harms of Banning Abortion in Kentucky
- Experts: Boost SNAP Purchasing Power in Next Farm Bill
- Kentucky House Bill Will Bring Changes to Unemployment Insurance in 2023
- Sending Public Money to Private Schools Breaks Kentucky’s Commitment to Students
- Kentucky Governor Expands Medicaid to Include Dental, Vision and Hearing
- Student Debt Relief Application Now Live for 560,000 Eligible Kentuckians
- With the Application for Student Loan Forgiveness Open, KY Officials Warn Against Scams
- Despite Growing Risk of Recession, Kentucky Will Slash Weeks of Unemployment Benefits by More than Half in January
- Report: Richest 0.1% of Kentuckians Hold Staggering $275 Billion in Wealth
- Experts Say KY Should Hit Pause on Tax Cuts Amid Recession Fears
- When Will Student Loans Be Forgiven? What Kentucky Residents Should Know About Debt Relief
- Midway Equity and Equality Committee Hears From KCEP
- Public Policy Group Fears Recession, Urges Kentucky to Suspend Income Tax Cut
- More Disasters Are Coming. Kentucky Must Be Prepared
- With Mounting Needs and Fear of Recession, State Should Suspend Tax Cuts
- ‘It’s a Travesty.’ Ky’s Unemployment System Continues to Trip up Those Who Need Help the Most.
- State Government Jobs Go Unfilled in Kentucky as the Private Sector Thrives
- Over 563,000 Kentuckians Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness. Key Dates to Remember
- Recovery in Kentucky, but Not All Are the Same
- Jilly Pads Period Pantry Offers Free Menstrual Products in California Neighborhood
- New Census Data Suggests Power of Federal Pandemic Aid for Kentuckians
- August Jobs Report Reflects Similar Growth in Kentucky
- Food Assistance Benefits Expanded for Those Impacted by Eastern Kentucky Floods
- Ashland Woman Compares College Costs Over Decades
- Kentucky Edition
- Kentucky Economy Rebounding, but Workforce Issues Remain
- Despite Rapid Pandemic Recovery, Kentucky Workers Need More Support
- What to Know About Student Loan Forgiveness
- Student Debt Forgiveness Won’t Be Taxed in Kentucky as Income. This Is What to Know
- Ky’s Personal Income Tax Rate Is Going Down. Here’s How Much and Why.
- Our View: Receiving Student Debt Relief Shouldn’t Be a Challenge
- Ky. teacher says it’s nearly impossible for students to graduate debt-free today
- Kentucky Students Will Not Have to Pay Taxes on Loan Forgiveness
- The State of Working Kentucky 2022
- National Tour of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Musical Launching From Louisville
- More Than 600K Kentuckians Could Benefit From Student Loan Forgiveness
- Kentucky Edition
- Student Loan Debt in Kentucky: A Look at the Numbers
- Kentucky Economists, Higher Education Officials Respond to Student Loan Forgiveness
- Sen. McConnell: President Biden’s College Debt Forgiveness Plan Is ‘Student Loan Socialism’
- What Does Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Mean for Kentuckians?
- Here’s How Many Kentuckians Could Benefit From $10K in Student Loan Forgiveness From Biden
- Flood Relief Legislation Only a First Step, Leaves Out Housing Aid
- Statement: Student Debt Cancellation Will Help Hundreds of Thousands of Kentuckians
- Kentucky on Track to Lower Income Tax After Recording Budget Surplus
- Potential Student Loan Forgiveness Impact on Kentuckians
- Inadequate State Funding Leaves Kentucky Teachers With Meager Raises
- When Disaster Strikes, Disaster SNAP Helps Feed Kentuckians
- State Must Go Beyond FEMA Aid to Adequately Address Housing Need From Eastern Kentucky Floods
- KY and Bourbon’s Long Honeymoon May Be Over. We Need a More Stable Long-Term Relationship.
- Tax Credit ‘the Fuse’ for Kentucky Bourbon Boom. Now Distillers Want More Breaks.
- Kentucky Must Do More to Increase Flood Resilience
- How Inflation Is Impacting Common Grocery Prices in Kentucky
- ‘Transformational’ or a ‘Reckless’ Spending Spree? A Kentucky Economic Think Tank and the State’s Leading Republican Take on Democrats’ Latest Legislation
- Most Kentucky Teachers and School Staff Start Year Without Meaningful Raises
- Let’s Learn From Braidy, and Seek More Answers From Each Other
- What the New Climate and Health Legislation Will Mean for Kentucky
- “We Keep Getting Hit:” Flooded Kentucky Grows Weary After Another Natural Disaster
- State Workers Help Us All; It’s Past Time to Help Them Too
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- Impact of Child Care Issues on KY’s Workforce Explored at Task Force Meeting
- Kentucky Tonight: Work, Wages and Welfare
- Local Jails Seeing Rise in Inmate Populations
- How Legislators, Jailers Aim to Fight Recidivism, Overcrowding in Kentucky Jails
- KY Jails Are Again Overfilling After COVID Restrictions Lift. Will New Laws Make It Worse?
- High Incarceration Rate Leaves Most of Kentucky’s Jails Overpopulated. See the Data.
- Personnel Cabinet Recommends Improving Compensation to Stave off State Workforce Crisis
- Temporary Surplus Should Not Trigger Permanent Tax Cuts that Threaten Future Budgets
- The Economic Implications of an Abortion Ban in Kentucky
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- Kentuckians Under Crippling Financial Stress From Student Loan Debt
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- Addressing Corporate Power Is Key to Tackling Inflation
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- Kentucky Tonight: Discussing the Rise in Gas Prices and Inflation
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- Post-Pandemic, KY Returns to World-High Incarceration Rate
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- The 2022 General Assembly Passed More Bills Increasing Incarceration Than Decreasing It, and Failed to Make Other Badly Needed Justice Changes
- EKU Faculty and Staff Unionize
- Kentucky Drops in National Rankings for Teacher Pay, Student Spending
- Kentucky’s Digital Gold Rush. What’s Behind the Crypto Mining Boom in Coal Country?
- Coalition Calls on Gov. Beshear to Honor Second Chance Month by Vetoing SB 163
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- Bill Provides Huge Subsidy to Investment Companies with No Requirement of Rural Investments, Jobs or Return to Communities
- Borrowers Fear Balancing Inflation and Student Loan Payments
- Veto Period Begins for the Kentucky General Assembly
- Senate Passes Bill Related to Public Assistance
- Tax Cut Is a Giveaway to the Wealthy That Will Damage Future Budgets
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- Kentucky Lawmakers Pass New Two-Year Budget With Modest Increases, $1 Billion Unspent
- Budget Agreement Includes Only Modest Increases in Most Areas of Budget, Salary Increases for State Workers
- GOP Budget Drops Plan for $500 Rebate for Kentuckians, Funds Full-Day Kindergarten
- Kentucky Personal Income Tax Cut Remains But Rebates Likely Done in New GOP Bill
- Kentucky Senate Committee Advances Bill Tightening Rules for Food Benefits, Medicaid
- Public Benefit Bill Moves Closer to Becoming Law Over Protests About Costs, Impact on Poor
- Kentucky Tonight: Public Assistance and Jobless Benefits
- Senate Version of HB 7 Still Makes It Harder to Get and Keep Food and Medical Assistance, Particularly for Working Families
- Proposal Would Continue to Tax Slot Machines at Egregiously Low Level
- KY Lawmakers Move to Cut Unemployment Benefits
- Here’s How Much the GOP Plan to Overhaul Kentucky Public Benefits is Estimated to Cost
- HB 7 Will Cost $255 Million from Kentucky’s Budget and Harm the State’s Economy
- New Version of HB 7 Still Makes Food and Medical Assistance Much Harder to Get and Keep
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- In Focus: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Analyzes Proposed Tax Reform Legislation
- In Focus: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Weighs in on Lawmakers’ Budget Proposals
- This Legislative Session Threatens to Lower the Quality of Life in the Commonwealth
- Commentary: House Bill 7 Would Risk Thousands of Kentuckians Losing Health Care Coverage, Food Assistance
- Will Charter Schools Open in KY? Future Still Uncertain After Beshear Says He’ll Veto Bill
- Bills to Legalize Sports Betting and Ban Gray Machines Pass Kentucky House
- Pretrial Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly Are a Mixed Bag
- Beshear Vetoes Bill That Would End COVID Emergency Early and Threaten SNAP Benefits
- Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Vetoes Bill That Would Forfeit $50M in Extra Food Stamp Benefits
- Beshear Vetoes GOP-Backed Measure to End Kentucky’s COVID State of Emergency
- Gov. Beshear Vetoes Bill to End COVID State of Emergency
- KY Experts: Increasing Fentanyl Penalties Doesn’t Address Overdose Crisis
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- Beshear: Measure Would Cost Kentucky Millions in Food Aid
- Lawmakers’ Push to End COVID-19 Emergency Early Will Cost Kentucky Millions in Federal Aid
- Legislators Want to End COVID Emergency Early, But Risk Losing $50 Million in SNAP Benefits
- Charter School Funding Proposal Is Inefficient, Costly and Will Harm Public Education
- 2-Year Budget, Tax Rebates, Tax Reform: Here’s Where Things Stand in Kentucky Legislature
- Kentucky’s COVID Emergency Could Soon End. Lawmakers Wonder If It Will Make a Difference
- House Tax Bill Would Wreck Kentucky’s Budget to Benefit the Wealthy
- Ky. Senate Republicans Unveil Budget, Setting the Stage for Tax Overhaul
- Senate Budget Cuts Education Funding Further From Modest House Plan
- House GOP Tax Plan Would Cost Kentucky’s Budget $900 Million, State Analysis Shows
- Kentucky House Passes Income Tax Reform on Near Party-Line Vote
- Kentucky Bill That Would Cut Unemployment Benefits Takes Another Step Forward
- Income Tax Cut Bill “Epic” for GOP. Others Call It the “Worst Bill” Ever.
- House GOP Tries Again on Tightening Controls on Public Benefits. Here’s Their Plan.
- HB 7 Puts New, Costly Barriers in Front of Kentuckians Seeking Food and Medical Help
- Income Tax Cuts Will Widen Inequality in Kentucky
- “Tough Love” or “Very Cruel”? Plan to Cut Jobless Benefits Advances to KY Senate Floor
- Unemployment Reform Measure Narrowly Passes Panel
- Ky. House Republicans Unveil Bill to Eliminate State Income Tax
- Tax Rebate Bill Clears Committee
- Business-Friendly or Bleak? Reactions to House Republicans’ Big Tax Reform Bill
- Kentucky Bill Proposes Phase Out of Individual Income Taxes
- Kentucky House GOP Plan Would Cut Income Taxes But Add Sales Taxes to 18 Services
- House Tax Bill Would Devastate Kentucky’s Budget for a Giveaway to the Wealthy
- 4 Ways the Kentucky General Assembly Can Fight Hunger in the New Budget
- Senate Income Tax Rebate Unfairly Leaves Out Low-Income Kentuckians, Could Force Some to Repay It
- KY Lawmakers Move Data Center Tax Incentives for Amazon, Facebook, Other Tech Giants
- Why Magoffin County Has the Highest Unemployment Rates
- Expert: Kentucky Should Clean Up Its Tax Code Instead of Slashing Income Tax for the Wealth
- Kentucky House Republicans Look To Scale Back Unemployment Benefits. Here’s What To Know.
- Kentucky House passes Unemployment Reform Package That Concerns Some Groups
- Kentucky’s Jobs Recovery Is Very Strong — False Claims to the Contrary Are Being Used to Justify Harmful Benefit Cuts
- While Failing to Address Kentucky’s Overdose Crisis, HB 215 Would Keep People Incarcerated Longer
- There’s Still Time for Kentucky to Reverse Course on Harmful Criminal Policies
- State Funding for Education Has Been Stagnant for Many Years, But the 2022-2024 Budget Presents a Unique Opportunity to Begin Reinvesting
- Income Tax Cuts Are a Way to Sink the Economy, Not Grow It
- Statement: House Passage of HB 4 Threatens Kentucky Workers, Economy
- Hoping to Spur Workers, Kentucky House Approves Bill That Would Cut Jobless Benefits
- How COVID Showed Us Meaningful Bail Reform Is Possible in Kentucky
- Experts: KY Should Clean Up Tax Code, Not Slash Income Tax
- Tax Reform Talk a Part of the 2022 General Assembly Session
- No-Knock Warrants Under Scrutiny Again
- Report: Decade of Depressed Wages for State Workers Fueling Staffing Crisis
- HB 4 Would Slash Unemployment Benefits, Harming Economy and Deepening Hardship for Kentucky Workers
- Ky. Bill Would Limit Time in Jail Without Trial
- A Kentucky Law Is Flooding Prisons and Costing Taxpayers Millions
- Some Agree Kentucky’s Persistent Felony Offender Law Is Broken. Why Is It So Hard to Fix?
- Kentucky Groups Differ on How Frankfort Should Pursue Tax Reform
- In the COVID Recovery and Beyond, Kentuckians Need a Strong Safety Net
- Kentucky Has an Opportunity to Continue Steps to Reducing Incarceration by Addressing Harsh “Persistent Felony Offender” Laws
- Shift and Shaft Tax Policy Is No Way to Prosper
- West Virginia Will Pay a Profitable Steelmaker $1.7 Billion for Jobs During Tightest Labor Market in Decades
- Kentucky Tonight: Debating Provisions in the Proposed State Budget
- House Budget Provides Only Modest Reinvestment Despite Strong Revenues
- 2022 KyPolicy Conference – Program and Materials
- $75 Million Ky. Rural Jobs Tax Credit Bill Returns. Critics Ask If It Will Create Jobs.
- House Republicans and Gov. Beshear Each Filed a Budget Plan. How Are They Different?
- 3 Ways New Legislation Would Make Kentucky’s Unconstitutional Voucher Program Even Worse
- Education Focus of Governor’s 2022 Budget Address
- Governor’s Budget Includes Substantial Reinvestment in Education and Other Areas
- Why Louisville Businesses Are Finding Themselves “Again in Jeopardy”
- Multiple Solutions Needed to Address Workforce Shortage in Kentucky, Experts Say
- A Decade Without Raises and Weakened Benefits Have Created a State Workforce Crisis. Addressing it Adequately Should Be a Top Priority in the New Budget
- Our Commonwealth: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget
- Ky. House GOP Beats Gov. Beshear to the Punch by Releasing Its State Budget Plan First
- Experts Say CDC’s Latest Guidelines Pose Barriers to Some Workers
- GOP-Led House Files Budget, Some Critical of Money Left on the Table
- Report: Ky. Lawmakers Should Scale Back Tax Breaks, Boost Spending
- KyPolicy Releases Comprehensive Preview of the 2022-2024 Budget of the Commonwealth
- A Time To Invest: Preview of the 2022–2024 Budget of the Commonwealth
- They’re Back: Five Things to Watch as the Kentucky Legislature Returns to Frankfort
- New Report Shows Disappointing Returns for Kentucky Criminal Justice Reform
- Smart on Crime Has Its 2022 Agenda Ready for General Assembly
- Justice Reform Coalition Priorities for 2022 KY General Assembly Focus on Expungement, Penal Code Changes and Reentry
- Commentary: A Look at the Great Resignation
- Instead of Building New Futures, Poor KY Counties Using Coal Money to Pay Past Debts
- Kentucky Smart on Crime Announces Legislative Priorities for 2022 General Assembly Session
- Inside the Epicenter of America’s Great Resignation: Kentuckians Lay Out the 4 Forces Driving the State’s Labor Shortage — And Explain Why It’s Here to Stay
- One Step Forward, Six Steps Back: A Decade After Widely Hailed Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration Is Worsening in Kentucky
- Let’s Do More Than Light a Candle for the Mayfield Factory Workers
- Just Like COVID, KY Tornadoes Show Us That Most Vulnerable Workers Need Protecting
- Why Were Jail Inmates Working in the Mayfield Candle Factory When the Tornado Hit?
- What the Legislature Can Do to Improve the Return Home for Kentuckians Leaving Incarceration
- Report Shows Kentucky Has Reversed Course in 10 Years Since Passage of Criminal Justice Reform
- Further Shift Away from Income Taxes Would Worsen Inequities, Harm State’s Economy
- Why Can’t Kentucky Reduce Its Sky-High Prison Populations? Look to Lawmakers, Report Says
- Kentucky Tightens the Guardrails on Its Controversial Film Incentives Program
- New Report: 10 Years After Widely Hailed Criminal Justice Reform, Kentucky Has Reversed Progress and Mass Incarceration Is Worsening
- In Decade Since Major Criminal Justice Reform, the Kentucky General Assembly Has Passed Six Times as Many Laws Increasing Incarceration as Decreasing It
- Kentucky Tonight: Previewing the 2022 Kentucky General Assembly
- Kentuckians Are Thankful for This Year’s Food Relief, But Hunger Isn’t Off the Table Yet
- No Excuse. Beshear Ready to Pay Social Workers More. Lawmakers Need to Join Him.
- Childcare Deserts Are a Secret Driver of the Labor Shortage — And Half of Americans Live in One
- New Federal Infrastructure Law Moves Kentucky Forward
- Post Covid Pandemic: How States Have Reformed the Bail System
- School Funding Task Force Recommendations Include Steps Toward Adequacy and Equity
- Kentucky Needs Congress to Expand Child Care Capacity, Upgrade Quality and Improve Affordability with the Build Back Better Act
- Child Care in Kentucky Is Crucial and in Dire Need of Public Investment
- 3 Reasons Why Kentucky Is the Center of the Labor Shortage
- Child Care Provisions in Build Back Better Act Would Cut, Eliminate Costs for Thousands of Kentucky Families
- Kentucky Supreme Court Rules on Legal Challenge Involving Pretrial Fees
- GOP Leaders Mull Education Spending Ahead of 2022
- Understanding the Workforce Requires Being Honest About Work
- To Address Mass Incarceration, Kentucky Must End Perverse Incentives to Expand and Crowd Local Jails
- Report: Financial Incentives Drive KY Jail Overcrowding, Expansion
- The Golden Key: How State-Local Financial Incentives to Lock Up Kentuckians Are Perpetuating Mass Incarceration
- The Golden Key: How State-Local Financial Incentives to Lock Up Kentuckians Are Perpetuating Mass Incarceration
- New Report: Unprecedented Surpluses Present Opportunity to Both Reinvest in Kentucky’s Budget and Build Rainy Day Fund
- Unprecedented Surplus Presents Opportunity to Both Reinvest in Kentucky’s Budget and Build Rainy Day Fund
- Kentucky Tonight: Historical Horse Racing — A Growing Pastime in Kentucky
- Changes Are Coming to SNAP Benefits. Here’s What Kentuckians Should Know
- What Is Historical Horse Racing and How Do the Betting Machines Work?
- Kentucky Senator: State Wants Bigger Slice of Derby Pie With Churchill Expansion
- Build Back Better by the Numbers — What’s at Stake for Kentucky
- How Kentuckians Would Benefit from the Build Back Better Act
- How the End of Federal Unemployment Benefits Has Affected Hiring in Kentucky
- KY Bill Would Allow Domestic Violence Survivors to Collect Unemployment
- Private School Tax Credit Program at Odds With Kentucky’s Constitution
- Emergency Relief Endures with Extension, Legislative Advocacy
- New Data on Poverty and Hardship in Kentucky Shows Need for Robust Federal Recovery Package
- The Improved Child Tax Credit in Kentucky Parents’ Own Words — and Why It Should Be Permanent
- House, Senate Approve First “Checklist” of Executive Orders, Debates Still Loom
- This Week In Conversation: How COVID-19 Changed Work
- Coalition Letter: Kentucky General Assembly Must Use Special Session to Protect the Health of Kentuckians, Our Workforce and Our Children’s Education
- Statement: September 4 Expiration of Federal Unemployment Benefits in Kentucky Will Increase Hardship, Will Not Improve State’s Jobs Picture
- Honor Labor Day by Supporting Workers as if They Are Essential
- Student Debt Relief Still Needed as College Year Begins in Kentucky
- Record Surplus Creates Opportunity to Reinvest in Kentucky
- A Tour Of Bail: How Other States Have Reformed The Money Bail System
- Grocery Money for Families Through Pandemic EBT for Childcare and Summer EBT to Boost Kentucky’s Economy by Over $267 Million
- Experts Say: KY Budget Surplus Should Be Invested In Communities
- Increasing SNAP Benefit Levels, and Removing Barriers for Immigrant and Refugee Communities, Would Improve Equity in Kentuckians’ Access to Healthy Foods
- Statement: Senate Vote to Advance Federal Budget Resolution Charts Course Toward Stronger, More Equitable Future
- What to Know About Kentucky School Funding as Kids Head Back to School
- Federal Relief Programs Cut Poverty in Kentucky by Two-Thirds This Year
- Historic Surplus Leaves State in Strong Place to Begin Reinvesting in Kentucky’s Needs
- In Focus: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Weighs in on Commonwealth’s New School Choice Law
- Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Is a Landmark Victory in the Fight Against Child Poverty. Let’s Not Let It Vanish Next Year.
- Film, TV Studios Are Offered Incentives From States After Pandemic Shutdowns
- It’ll Help With Bills and Food and Just All the Way Around. Local Mom Reacts to Receiving Child Tax Credit Payments
- Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Begin Arriving for Families July 15
- More Than 2 Million Kentucky, Indiana Families are Eligible for the Expanded Child Tax Credit
- It Came in the Nick of Time: About 46,000 Louisville Families to Receive Child Tax Credit
- The Child Tax Credit and Your Family
- Child Tax Credit Payments Begin Arriving Today for Almost One Million Kids in State
- Child Tax Credits Are Coming. Here’s What to Know.
- Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Start Thursday. Here’s What to Know
- Ky. Parents to Receive Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments Starting This Week
- Child Tax Credits Touted as Game Changer for Louisville Families
- Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Begin July 15
- Advance Child Tax Credit Payments Really Going to Help Struggling Parents
- Experts Call Child Tax Credit a Game Changer for KY Families
- Medicaid Filled the COVID Coverage Gap
- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Says U.S. Taking Steps to Boost Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs
- Making Millionaires Finally Chip in Like the Rest of Us Would Pay for Transformational Public Investments in Kentucky
- Nearly 1 Million Kentucky Children Eligible To Receive First Monthly Child Tax Credit Payment Next Month
- Beshear to Unveil “Return to Work” Incentive for Unemployed
- Louisville-area Employers Dangle Hiring Bonuses in Tight Job Market
- Local Recovery Monies Should Go to Communities’ Greatest Needs — Kentuckians Can Help Make That Happen
- Coalition Letter to Governor Beshear: Continue Critical Commitment to Federal Unemployment Benefits
- Experts Say Prematurely Ending Federal UI Could Harm KY Economy
- Don’t Cut Expanded Unemployment Benefits, or Kentuckians and Our Economy Will Suffer
- Expanded Unemployment Benefits are a Crucial Bridge for Kentuckians and Our Economy
- More Than 900,000 Kentucky Families Eligible for Payments
- Commentary: There Is No Better Time Than Now for Kentucky Employers to Expand Fair Chance Hiring
- Kentucky Governor Facing Calls to Halt Extra Unemployment Benefits
- Some of the Worst Bridges in the Country Are in Kentucky
- More Handouts for Developers? Distillery District Hotel Shows Need for Better Policy.
- Pari-mutuel Wagering Tax Focus of New Kentucky Committee
- Kentucky’s Beshear Wants Unemployment System Changes
- Policy Expert: Kentucky’s Worker Shortage Could Be Cured by Offering Higher Wages
- Unions, Nonprofits Urge Beshear to Keep Unemployment Supplement
- From Churches to Labor Unions, Groups Urge State to Keep Jobless Benefits
- From TV Shows to Cryptocurrency, Here’s Who Is Getting New Tax Breaks in Kentucky
- $300 Weekly Jobless Benefit Is Good for Kentucky’s Economy
- McDonald’s Workers in 15 Cities Strike for Better Wages
- Kentucky House Members Call for End to Extra Unemployment Benefits
- Kentucky Tonight: Jobs and the Economy
- Federal Food Assistance Will Help Feed Nearly 7 in 10 Kentucky Kids This Summer — We Should Make It Permanent
- Summer Turns Up the Heat for Struggling Kentuckians, But This Year, Some Relief Is Within Reach
- Tax Day: Kentucky Did Not Follow Feds With Unemployment Break
- Federal Stimulus Funds a Gift for Governors Like Newsom
- WKU Given Go Ahead to Approve 2% Tuition Hike for Undergrads
- Employers Search for Ways to Bring in New Workers
- Chocolates and Flowers Are Nice, But Better Policies Are What’s Needed This Mother’s Day
- Facing Retirement, Potter College Dean Reflects on Decades at WKU
- State Should Focus Remaining American Rescue Plan Fiscal Relief on Kentuckians’ Greatest Needs
- Tennessee Moves to Ban No-Knock Warrants
- This One Weird Trick Will Help Kentucky Employers Find Workers
- Eastern Standard: What Forgiven Student Loans Would Mean to Kentuckians and Kentucky
- American Families and Jobs Plans Would Provide Opportunity to All Kentucky Families
- Families Plan, Pandemic EBT Could Bring Relief for More KY Families
- The 2021 Legislative Session Wrap Up: Steps Forward and Backward for Kentuckians’ Opportunities to be Healthy
- New Frankfort Food Market and Pizza Pub Plans to Battle Food Desert
- WKU Proposes 2% Tuition Hike, Faces Nearly $8 Million in Cuts
- Kentucky Approved $43 Million of Tax Breaks to Company Biden Cited for Paying No Taxes
- Statement: American Families and Jobs Plans Would Provide Opportunity to All Kentucky Families
- How the American Rescue Plan Helps Kentuckians
- Summer Food Program Expansion Aids Millions of Ohio Valley Children
- The 2021 Legislative Session Health Care Wrap Up: Steps in the Right Direction
- Governor Vetoes Tax Breaks for Data Centers, Remote Workers
- The 2021 Legislative Session Criminal Justice Wrap Up: Some Important Wins that Should Be Built on to Achieve Systemic Change
- The 2021 Legislative Session Saw Important Criminal Justice Progress, But We Must Continue to Work for Systemic Change
- Tax Breaks for Facebook, Amazon and Google? Beshear Vetoes Bill Meant to Lure Data Centers
- Corporations Were the Primary Focus of One-Time Monies in General Assembly
- Report: Student Loan Forgiveness Would Positively Impact the Commonwealth
- Gov. Beshear Vetoes Bill Giving Tax Break to Remote Workers, Data Centers
- Report: Canceling $50K Per Student Borrower Would Wipe Away $8.15B Debt for Kentuckians
- Kentucky AG Cameron Sues Biden Administration Over ARPA Restriction on Tax Cut Offsets
- Student Debt Forgiveness Would Benefit Hundreds of Thousands of Kentuckians, Help With Economic Recovery and Improve Race Equity
- What the American Rescue Plan Means for Child Poverty in Rural America
- American Rescue Plan’s Expanded Child Tax Credit Will Improve the Lives of Over a Million Kentucky Kids
- Criminal Justice Reform Coalition Praises Passage of Bills by State Lawmakers
- Legislature Says “Deadbeat Parents” Shouldn’t Get Food Aid
- Criminal Justice Reform Group Applauds Legislative Action
- Governor Should Veto Expensive, Poorly Targeted Tax Breaks for Remote Workers and Data Centers
- Legislature Spends Additional Federal and General Fund Monies on Session’s Last Day
- KY Legislature Passes COVID-19 Liability Protections, No-Knock Warrant Limits & More
- At the Expense of Community Investments, HB 372 Gives a Costly Tax Windfall to High-Income People
- Kentucky Tonight: Wrapping Up the 2021 General Assembly
- KY Officials “Stacked the Deck” to Get Glowing Report on Film Tax Credits
- Special Open Enrollment Period for Health Insurance Extended to Aug. 15; New Rules Expand Who Qualifies
- Ky. Ranked 37th in Protecting Children in Pandemic
- County and City Expect to Receive $17 Million in Federal Rescue Plan Funds
- The Coronavirus Economy in Kentucky: One Year Later
- How COVID-19 Rocked Kentucky’s Economy and What the Future Looks Like
- HB 563 Diverts Public School Dollars to Unaccountable Private Entities
- State Lawmakers Revive Kentucky’s Film Tax Credit
- Gov. Beshear Vetoes Bills Shielding Legislative Records, Risking Food Benefits of Children
- Governor Should Veto Tax Bills That Reduce Needed Revenues, Put Kentucky at Risk of Owing Back Aid
- Kentucky Tonight: School Choice in Kentucky
- What Biden’s Relief Package Means for Kentucky’s Student Loan Borrowers
- Seelbach Owner Funded Legislative Lobbying, Campaigns Ahead of $6M Hotel Tax Credit
- Kentucky Bill Criminalizing Taunts Against Police Stalls
- Kentucky Judges Will Now Have More Say in Whether Youths Go to Adult Court in Gun Cases
- Kentucky Would Give $15,000 to Remote Workers Under GOP Plan
- KY Legislators Rushed State Tax Breaks Worth Hundreds of Millions to Beshear’s Desk
- Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program Resumes in the Commonwealth
- Kentucky Lawmakers Pass $12 Billion Budget That Keeps Spending Level
- Food Banks, Grocers Praise Extension of Federal Pandemic Benefit
- Multimillion-Dollar Tax Gift Aimed at Helping Seelbach Hotel, Lawmakers Confirm
- Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Freeze, Extra Education Bills Sent to Governor
- Here’s What the KY Legislature Passed on Its Last Day for Veto-Proof Bills
- “Dismayed.” School Choice Bill Sent to Kentucky Governor Despite Strong Opposition
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- Kentucky Lawmakers Propose Changes That Would Eviscerate No-Knock Warrant Bill, Critics Say
- American Rescue Plan Is a Lifeline for Kentuckians
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- SB 4 Would Limit No-Knock Warrants and Reduce Harm, but New Amendments Undermine Positive Impact
- Legislature To Pass Austere Budget, Prevent Governor From Using New Federal Aid Without Authorization
- This Changes Everything. How New Law Will Help One Million Kentucky Kids.
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- Statement: Passage of the American Rescue Plan Act Will Alleviate Hardship and Help Kentucky’s Economy Recover
- Lawmakers Could Do More to Make College Affordable, Report Finds
- Last-Minute Tax Giveaways Threaten Budget — and Will Force Kentucky to Pay Back Aid Money to Feds
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- House Bill 149 Aims to Bring Education Opportunity Accounts to Kentucky
- Opponents Fear Bill Will Weaken Kentucky’s Open Records Law
- Statement: House COVID Relief Bill Is the Response Kentuckians Need
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- Homeless and Housing Coalition Looks to Fight Renters’ Burden in Bowling Green
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- WKYT Investigates: Kentucky’s Antiquated Unemployment System
- Special COVID-19 Health Insurance Enrollment Period Begins; Kyians Have Until May 15 to Choose a Plan
- Kentucky Downs Looks to Expand into Warren County
- Kentucky Among Worst States in Nation for Higher Education Cuts, Harming Students Who Already Face the Greatest Barriers
- HB 413 Provides Poorly Targeted Tax Break that Will Add Costs Later and Stress Unemployment System
- Editorial: Legislative Update
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- Ohio Valley Economists Weigh in on Biden’s Recovery Plan
- A Taxing Issue: Historical Horse Racing Slot Machines
- TN, KY Lawmakers Draft Bills to Modernize Struggling Unemployment Systems
- Banning Food Assistance for Parents Behind on Child Support Is Harmful to Families and Costly to the State
- Letter to the Kentucky House of Representatives on Raising the Inadequate Tax Rate on HHR Slot Machines
- House Dems Announce Plan to Modernize Unemployment Insurance
- New Bill to Reform Unemployment Insurance
- HB 406 Modernizes Unemployment Insurance and Prepares Kentucky for the Next Downturn
- Senators Overcome Their Own Objections to Approve Historical Horse Racing Bill
- The General Assembly Must Resist an Expensive Double-Dip Tax Break and Instead Provide Targeted Aid to Businesses that Really Need Help
- Senate Committee Advances Bill to Legalize Historical Horse Racing Machines in Kentucky
- SB 36 Would Protect Children from Automatically Being Tried as Adults
- Despite Continued Risks from COVID-19, Kentucky Jail Population Continues to Increase
- School Choice Legislation Again Faces an Uphill Battle with Kentucky Lawmakers
- Kentucky Legislature Begins Action to Legalize “Historical Horse Racing” Machines
- Kentucky Lays Out Plan for Child Care Funding
- Bill Changing Felony Theft Statutes Clears Hurdle, First Change in Decade
- KY Lawmakers Continue Discussing Historic Racing Rules
- HB 126’s Reformed Felony Threshold Would Reduce Incarceration for Low-Level Theft
- With Lawmakers Poised to Act, Groups Want Higher Tax Rate on HHR Slots
- Coalition Says Kentucky Should Raise Taxes on Slot-like Gaming
- Coalition Calls for Taxing “Historical Horse Racing” Slots at Higher Rate if Legalized
- Groups Ask KY Lawmakers to Raise the Tax on “Historical Horse Racing” as They Work to Protect It
- Voucher Would Drain Much-Needed Resources from Kentucky’s Public Schools
- Coalition Letter to Kentucky General Assembly: End the Tax Break on Slot Machines
- Thousands of People Infected as Overcrowded KY Jails Create “Reservoirs for COVID”
- Critics Say KY Voucher Plan Would Siphon Funds from Public Schools
- General Assembly Should Strengthen the Recovery by Approving Much-Needed Relief
- Bills Capping Insulin Prices Could Help Many Kentuckians with Diabetes, Especially Those Who Struggle to Pay
- “Day Care Deserts.” A Look into KY’s Dramatic Decrease in Child Care Options.
- Voucher Proposal Takes Dollars from Kentucky’s Public Schools and Gives Them to Unaccountable Private Schools
- Recovery Went in Reverse in December as Relief Expired, Pandemic Resurged
- New Data Helps Pave the Way for Bail Reform in Kentucky
- Will a Third Stimulus Check Be Needed?
- Kentucky Ranks Near Top for Inmate Mortality, with COVID Infecting 90% in One Prison
- Letter to Governor Beshear: Coalition Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine and Incarcerated Kentuckians
- KFC’s Yum Center’s Debt Deepens by More Than $28 Million
- Does the Racing Industry Get a “Sweetheart Deal” on Taxes? This Republican Thinks So.
- “Cut and Dry Case”: Kentucky Residents Still Have Questions About Unemployment Benefits
- KY Jailer Concerned Over Proposed Budget Cuts, Policy Expert Weighs In
- Ky. Still Can’t Waive Unemployment Overpayment Debt
- $2,000 Checks Would Provide More of the Relief Kentuckians Need
- Governor’s Budget Increases Funding for Relief and Reinvestment
- Beshear Makes Another Bid to Raise Teacher Salaries, Boost Education Funding in Budget
- Pandemic Forcing KY Moms Out of the Workforce
- Any Action on Proliferating Slot Machines Must Raise Artificially Low Tax Rate
- Defeating the Pandemic and Building a Robust Recovery: A Preview of the Budget of the Commonwealth
- Kentucky’s Inadequate and Outdated Unemployment Insurance Taxes Need to Be Modernized
- Kentucky’s Too-Slow Economic Recovery Faces New Threats
- COVID-19 Crisis Demonstrates Need for State Improvements to Unemployment Insurance in Kentucky
- With Many Forms of Assistance Ending in December, Kentuckians Need Federal Relief Before the New Year
- Waiver to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Incarcerated People Shouldn’t Increase Incarceration
- Letter to the Public Pension Working Group
- Clean Up the Tax Code to Invest in Our Commonwealth
- Equip Kentucky for Prosperity in the Modern Economy
- Testimony on Call for Constitutional Convention
- House Proposes to Maintain Austere Budget, Shift Some Priorities
- Testimony: Local Option Sales Tax
- Letter: What a Tax Reform Plan Should Include
- Testimony on HB 318: Tax Reform
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- Disparate Justice: Where Kentuckians Live Determines Whether They Stay in Jail Because They Can’t Afford Cash Bail
- An Economic Agenda for a Thriving Commonwealth
- Fact Sheet: HB 169 “Gang” Bill is Not an Evidence-Based Approach
- 2 Gen Approach to Kentucky’s Opioid Epidemic Needed
- Facing Challenges with the New GED Test in Kentucky
- Improving Reentry in Kentucky through Education and Supports for Inmates and Ex-Offenders
- Category: Economic Security
- Testimony on House Bill 1, Committee Substitute
- 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
- Evidence from Kentucky Should Serve as Warning Against Food Assistance Restriction Rule
- Letter to Legislators: Quasis Need True Relief
- Time Limits and Other Challenges Hinder Success of Kentucky’s SNAP E&T Program
- Workforce Development in Kentucky Should Encourage High-Road Jobs
- The Financial Condition of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Industry in Kentucky
- New Retirement Plan for Private Sector Workers Would Strengthen Economic Security in Kentucky
- Who Stands to Benefit from a Minimum Wage Increase in Lexington
- Presentation: The State of Working Kentucky 2015
- Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes to Fund Investments in Kentucky Families
- Increasing Kentucky’s Minimum Wage Would Help One in Four Workers Make Ends Meet
- More than One in Five Louisville Workers Would Benefit from Proposed Minimum Wage Increase
- A Profile of New Americans in Kentucky
- Fact Sheet: The Benefits of a State Earned Income Tax Credit by Legislative District
- Increasing Kentucky’s Minimum Wage Would Help One in Four Workers Make Ends Meet
- Medicaid Expansion Would Benefit Workers Across Kentucky’s Economy
- Thousands of Kentucky Veterans Could Get Health Insurance Under Medicaid Expansion
- Cash Balance Plan Likely to Increase Costs, Impact the Quality of Public Services and Reduce Retirement Security
- Proposed Cash Balance Pension Plan for New Workers Projected to Increase Costs
- Presentation: Protecting Retirement Security and Building a Better Kentucky
- Four Key Facts about Public Pensions in Kentucky
- Myths and Facts about an Earned Income Tax Credit in Kentucky
- Public Versus Private Employee Costs in Kentucky: Comparing Apples to Apples
- Threatening Benefits for Low-Income Families Wrong Way to Address Drug Problem
- Unemployment Insurance Important to Economy but Limited for Workers
- Kentucky Should Re-Enact Surcharge to Pay Unemployment Interest
- Testimony on HB 182: Payday Lending
- Kentucky Will Forego $90 Million for Jobless Workers Unless Unemployment Insurance Updates Made by August
- Category: Education
- Strengthen Education for All Kentuckians
- State Budget Cuts to Education Hurt Kentucky’s Classrooms and Kids
- Performance Funding in Kentucky Should Promote Successful Outcomes for All Students
- 2016 Kentucky Budget Primer
- Developing the Healthcare Workforce: Growing Need Is an Opportunity for Kentucky
- Testimony: College Affordability in Kentucky
- New Commitment to Need-Based Financial Aid Critical in Context of Rising Tuition
- Vast Inequality in Wealth Means Poor School Districts Are Less Able to Rely on Local Property Taxes
- Crossing the Finish Line: Overcoming Barriers to Community College Degree and Credential Attainment in Kentucky
- Fact Sheet: College Affordability in Kentucky
- The College Affordability Crunch in Kentucky
- State Has Cut Education Funding Substantially from Pre-Recession Levels
- Category: Fact Sheets
- Category: Federal Tax and Budget
- What Will the Debt Ceiling Cuts Mean for Kentucky?
- Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Harm Kentucky’s Health and Economy
- Extending Federal Tax Cuts Would Double the Deficit for the Benefit of the Wealthiest
- House Budget Would Make Steep Cuts to Needed Services in Kentucky
- Testimony on SCR 134: Balanced Budget Amendment
- Using the Federal Income Tax Cuts to Help Address Kentucky’s Budget Challenge
- Category: Health Care
- Build Healthy, Resilient Communities
- Kentucky’s Barriers to Coverage Work Against the Objective of Medicaid
- Changes to Medicaid Waiver Request Move Further in the Wrong Direction
- Testimony for Congressman Yarmuth’s ACA Repeal Forum
- Many Kentucky Workers Have Gained Insurance through the Medicaid Expansion and Are Now at Risk
- Kentucky Can Improve Budget and Protect Medicaid by Ending Growing Hospital Tax Break
- Proposed Medicaid Waiver Would Reduce Coverage and Move Kentucky Backward on Health Progress
- Protecting Medicaid’s Role in Advancing a Healthy Kentucky
- Many Kentucky Workers Have Gained Insurance through the Medicaid Expansion, Are at Risk If Program Is Scaled Back
- Category: Jobs and the Economy
- The State of Working Kentucky 2019
- Immigrants Make Important Contributions to Kentucky Communities and Economy
- Improve Job Quality and Economic Security
- The State of Working Kentucky 2016
- Presentation: The State of Working Kentucky 2015
- The State of Working Kentucky 2014
- Sharp Decline in Coal Severance Tax Revenue Underscores Need for Economic Plan
- State Revenue Growth Should Be Put Into Context
- Kentucky Job Numbers Beg for Federal Action
- Kentucky’s Economy a Long Way from Full Recovery
- Category: Presentations
- Kentucky’s Budget Outlook
- Presentation: State Budget Overview
- Presentation: The Working Poor in Kentucky
- Presentation: Kentucky State Budget Briefing
- Presentation: Kentucky’s Budget Outlook
- Presentation: The Coal Severance Tax in Appalachian Kentucky
- Presentation: Building the Commonwealth through Tax Reform
- Category: Reports
- Legislature to Pass Austere 1-Year Budget with Major Uncertainty as to Revenues
- Senate Budget Increases Rainy Day Fund Paid for by Reducing Spending, Withholds Teacher Pension Contributions Until Benefit Cuts Are Made
- Tax Plan Is a Tax Shift with Troubling Long-Term Effect on Revenues
- Budget Agreement Includes Cuts, Full Pension Contributions and Some New Revenue
- TIF Creep Means Growing Costs, Less Accountability
- Shifting Health Costs to Employees Has Become Way State Plugs Budget
- How Several Bills Passed This Session Changed the State Budget
- General Assembly Passes Budget Containing 14th Round of Cuts Since 2008
- Deep Business Tax Cuts Are Not the Key to a Stronger Kentucky Economy
- “Single Sales Factor” Would Cost Substantial Revenue Kentucky Needs for Investments that Work
- Governor’s Budget Provides Some Short-Term Help But Needs Revenue to Improve and Sustain
- Limiting Expensive Income Tax Break for Higher-Income Retirees Is Important Part of Tax Reform
- Tax Plan Misses Opportunity to Make Overall Tax System Fairer
- Measuring the Tax Plan Against Key Principles
- Our Commonwealth: A Primer on the Kentucky State Budget
- Governor’s Austere Budget Gives Small Bump to K-12, Cuts Funding for Many Areas
- Budget Preview Report: Kentucky Faces Choice of Reinvestment or Retrenchment in Next State Budget
- State Must Begin Meeting Responsibility to Teachers’ Retirement or Pay More Later
- Another Corporate Tax Cut Is Not the Answer
- Kentucky’s Income Tax: Protecting and Strengthening a Key to Growth
- Tax Expenditures Big Cause of Budget Problems, but Some Legislators Want More
- Governor’s Budget Proposes Deep Cuts on Top of Past Reductions
- Kentucky Faces Serious Challenges with Next Budget
- One-Dimensional Reports Overlook Well-Documented Revenue Problem
- 2011 Revenue Results a Reminder of Importance of State Income Taxes
- Corporate Taxes Important to Meeting Kentucky’s Needs
- What Are Taxes For?
- Governor’s Veto Means Budget Depends on Managed Care Savings and Anticipated Revenue
- Four Revenue Options that Should Be on the Table
- Senate Budget Proposes $148 Million in Cuts
- Farmer’s High-Risk Overhaul Creates Imbalance in Kentucky’s Tax System
- Reforms Needed to Bring Greater Scrutiny to “Tax Expenditures”
- End of Recovery Act Funds Could Mean Serious Budget Challenge for Kentucky
- Category: State Budget
- Category: State Tax
- Category: Tax and Budget
- Category: Testimony
- Category: Workforce and Economic Development In-Focus
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