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Economic Security

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Chocolates and Flowers Are Nice, But Better Policies Are What’s Needed This Mother’s Day

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, this Mother’s Day is a critical time to acknowledge the harms of...

Anna Baumann | May 11, 2021

Spending cash in store

Analysis

State Should Focus Remaining American Rescue Plan Fiscal Relief on Kentuckians’ Greatest Needs

Among the aid that Kentucky state government will receive from the American Rescue Plan is $2.183 billion through the legislation’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The General Assembly appropriated...

Jason Bailey | May 10, 2021

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American Families and Jobs Plans Would Provide Opportunity to All Kentucky Families

In his April 28 address to a Joint Session of Congress, President Biden announced details of his administration’s American Families Plan. Here in Kentucky, this plan, together with the American...

Jason Bailey | May 5, 2021

Kentucky Adults Self Reported Health Status

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The 2021 Legislative Session Wrap Up: Steps Forward and Backward for Kentuckians’ Opportunities to be Healthy

When Kentucky’s legislature gathers each year, the decisions they make either improve health in Kentucky or worsen it — and not just through legislation related specifically to health care. Kentuckians’...

Jessica Klein | May 3, 2021

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How the American Rescue Plan Helps Kentuckians

The American Rescue Plan provides relief to Kentuckians facing the health and economic consequences of COVID-19. Through stimulus payments, boosted food, health and housing assistance and more, the plan is...

Dustin Pugel and Jessica Klein | April 28, 2021

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Analysis

American Rescue Plan’s Expanded Child Tax Credit Will Improve the Lives of Over a Million Kentucky Kids

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act includes a historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which will help an estimated 1.1 million Kentucky children and lift an estimated 69,000...

Dustin Pugel | April 5, 2021

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American Rescue Plan Is a Lifeline for Kentuckians

When economies falter and hardship rises, governments must respond with vigorous action. It’s a lesson our country learned in the 1930s with the New Deal, but had seemingly forgotten during...

Jason Bailey | March 15, 2021

Spending cash in store

Analysis

What’s in the American Rescue Plan for Kentuckians

The new COVID relief bill, known as the American Rescue Plan (ARP), will soon become law. It will send billions in aid to Kentucky’s families, communities and state and local...

Dustin Pugel, Ashley Spalding and Jason Bailey | March 9, 2021

Op-Ed

The 2021 General Assembly Can Meet the Moment with Policies that Advance Racial Equity

The last year has brought much-needed new attention to issues of racism across the country and in Kentucky, spurred in large part by the killings of Breonna Taylor and other...

Anna Baumann | February 26, 2021

taxable wage base

Analysis

HB 413 Provides Poorly Targeted Tax Break that Will Add Costs Later and Stress Unemployment System

In June 2020, Kentucky had to request a line of credit up to $865 million from the federal government in order to continue paying unemployment insurance (UI) claims during the...

Dustin Pugel | February 17, 2021

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Economic Security News

1 New Census Data Suggests Power of Federal Pandemic Aid for Kentuckians

Kentucky Rate of Uninsured Improved After Special Pandemic Era Protections2

2 How Inflation Is Impacting Common Grocery Prices in Kentucky

3 “We Keep Getting Hit:” Flooded Kentucky Grows Weary After Another Natural Disaster

4 Diaper and Menstrual Product Taxes Worsen Inequity. Some Council Members Want to Pressure the State to End Them

5 House Bill 4: Changes to Unemployment Insurance Go Into Effect in 2023

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SNAP Is a Vital Tool for Fighting Hunger That Should Be Strengthened, Not Attacked

Jessica Klein

How Kentucky Turned Away Half a Billion Dollars in Grocery Help

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