Higher Minimum Wage Is Good for Kentucky Workers and the State’s Economy
Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would lift the wages of over one in four Kentucky workers...
Economic Security
Expanding Medicaid is a Good Move for Kentucky
Expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a good move for Kentucky. More than half of the state’s uninsured stand to benefit. It would have a positive impact...
Medicaid Expansion Would Benefit Workers Across Kentucky’s Economy
If Kentucky moves forward with the Medicaid expansion, uninsured workers across Kentucky's economy could gain health coverage. Workers at restaurants, construction sites, grocery stores and child care centers are among...
Pension Bill Focuses on Wrong Issues
To hear some in Frankfort these days, Kentucky needs pension reform now, now, now to avoid our own fiscal cliff, sequester, Greek economic meltdown or you name the financial calamity....
Thousands of Kentucky Veterans Could Get Health Insurance Under Medicaid Expansion
9,500 uninsured Kentucky veterans and thousands of their family members could gain health insurance coverage if the state makes the right decision to move forward with the Medicaid expansion now...
Cash Balance Plan Likely to Increase Costs, Impact the Quality of Public Services and Reduce Retirement Security
While the primary pension challenge Kentucky faces is how to find the revenue to pay back the existing unfunded liability, much of the attention has instead focused on moving new...
Proposed Cash Balance Pension Plan for New Workers Projected to Increase Costs
The cash balance plan for new workers proposed in Senate Bill 2 would make paying Kentucky’s unfunded pension liability harder by adding approximately $55 million in state costs over the...
Presentation: Protecting Retirement Security and Building a Better Kentucky
This presentation was given at the Kentucky Public Pension Coalition press and legislator briefing held January 30, 2013. KPPC Press Briefing Presentation KPPC Press Briefing Text
Why Regions Fail
Others have rightly jumped on Nicholas Kristof’s December column in the New York Times criticizing the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for children with disabilities. Kristof uses stories of families...
Four Key Facts about Public Pensions in Kentucky
As Kentucky legislators consider changes that could cut pension benefits for nurses, social workers, police officers and other public sector workers, they should keep in mind four important facts. Public...