Presentation: State Budget Overview
Kentucky faces a very difficult budget situation as lawmakers work to craft a new spending plan for 2018-2020. Nineteen rounds...
Budget & Tax
Governor’s Budget Cuts Per-Student SEEK Funding
The Support for Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) formula is the primary source of funding for the state’s local school districts. Despite the perception that SEEK funding is not cut...
More Detail About 70 Programs Defunded in Governor’s Budget Proposal
This table provides information about the 70 programs for which Governor Bevin's 2018-2020 budget proposal would eliminate state funding. The proposal is available here. All programs identified as being eliminated...
Governor’s Budget Cuts Education, Eliminates Some Programs
Click to download a PDF of KCEP's initial analysis of the governor's budget proposal. The governor’s proposed budget makes deep cuts to education, eliminates funding for 70 programs and makes cuts...
School Voucher Tax Break Proposals Further Threaten Funding for Public Education
Bills have already been filed in both the Senate and the House this session that would further threaten resources for Kentucky’s already underfunded public schools and other services, allow high-income...
A Better Way to Understand Kentucky’s Pension Health
Click to view this report and its appendix as a PDF. Plenty of attention is paid to how badly funded Kentucky's public pension plans are. Compared to other states, our...
Commonwealth At Risk: A Preview of the 2018-2020 Kentucky State Budget
Round after round of damaging budget cuts, a decades-long refusal to clean up tax breaks, and the reality that additional appropriations are needed for pensions, corrections, Medicaid and other crucial...
New 2018 Cuts Hit Some Departments Harder Than Others
Last week the governor announced mid-year budget cuts for fiscal year 2018 that represent an overall cut of 1.3 percent to all 3 branches of state government. However, it is...
Massive New Federal Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Should Be a Resource for Kentucky’s Budget
Kentucky is facing a major gap in its next two-year state budget that could mean unprecedented cuts to education and other services. But the General Assembly could look to the...
Some Federal Lawmakers Want to Use New Tax Cuts for the Wealthy as Cause to Undermine Basic Supports for Kentucky Families
The tax bill Congress passed yesterday was the first in a two-step plan to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and pay for them later through cuts to critical...