SB 57 an Important Step to Expand Felony Expungement
SB 57, which is scheduled for a vote in the House tomorrow, would take another modest but important step toward...
Economic Security
HB 3: Taking Financial Help from Kentucky’s Kids, Including Those Raised by Grandparents
Kentucky currently utilizes federal dollars through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to provide modest but critical cash assistance to more than 27,000 very poor kids. House Bill...
Sign-On Letter Against House Bill 3
To the Members of the Kentucky General Assembly: We, the undersigned, voice our strong opposition to House Bill 3. HB 3 would erect costly and complex barriers that take away...
HB 3: Taking Away Benefits From Poor Kentuckians Would Be Extremely Costly to State
House Bill 3 would use tens of millions of public dollars to erect barriers to nutrition, health care and other vital assistance for low-income Kentuckians. While a fiscal note for...
HB 3 Proposes Massive, Expensive and Ineffective Bureaucracy That Will Hurt Kentucky Families and Open State to Legal Problems
House Bill 3 is an extreme proposal to further restrict access to nutrition, health and cash assistance in Kentucky. It would require a massive, costly bureaucracy to implement and would...
New Bills Would Slash Unemployment Insurance and Leave Kentuckians Stranded
New bills filed in both the Kentucky House and Senate would severely cut unemployment insurance for Kentuckians who lose their jobs, reducing benefits by 20 percent for the average unemployed...
Pregnancy Accommodations Would Benefit Kentucky Families and Businesses
No Kentucky mother should be forced to choose between work or a healthy, safe pregnancy and baby. But without a law requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to expectant and...
It’s Time to Stop Blaming the Safety Net
As decision-makers go after the very assistance that hundreds of thousands of low-income Kentuckians use to help make ends meet, the harm to families and communities deepens. Erecting barriers to...
Government Shutdown Could Leave Nearly 600,000 Kentuckians Without Food Assistance
Among the most dire effects of the government shutdown so far is the potential that benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could run out in March or April, leaving...
Time Limits and Other Challenges Hinder Success of Kentucky’s SNAP E&T Program
Click here for a PDF of the report. Executive Summary Recent data shows more than 10,000 Kentuckians have lost SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as “food stamps") as...