Economic Security

Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Is a Landmark Victory in the Fight Against Child Poverty. Let’s Not Let It Vanish Next Year.

Last week, Kentucky families began benefitting from the most extraordinary policy change to address child poverty in many decades —...

Op-Ed

Coalition Letter to Governor Beshear: Continue Critical Commitment to Federal Unemployment Benefits

Dear Governor Beshear, Thank you for your efforts and decisions to protect Kentuckians from economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are writing as a coalition of organizations representing Kentucky...

Op-Ed

Expanded Unemployment Benefits are a Crucial Bridge for Kentuckians and Our Economy

As a coalition of organizations representing Kentucky workers, families and communities, we urge state lawmakers to protect expanded pandemic unemployment benefits until the federally funded program ends in early September....

Analysis

Federal Food Assistance Will Help Feed Nearly 7 in 10 Kentucky Kids This Summer — We Should Make It Permanent

Child food insecurity, with its harmful short- and long-term consequences, typically increases during summer as kids are unable to eat meals at school. This summer, as pandemic-related hardships are still...

Op-Ed

Summer Turns Up the Heat for Struggling Kentuckians, But This Year, Some Relief Is Within Reach

Summer is here in Kentucky. Temperatures are rising, and the school year is wrapping up for kids, parents and teachers across the state. For financially secure Kentuckians, the arrival of...

Op-Ed

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 the pandemic on women in Kentucky — particularly women of...

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...

Op-Ed

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...

Analysis

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’...

Fact Sheet

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...

Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Is a Landmark Victory in the Fight Against Child Poverty. Let’s Not Let It Vanish Next Year.

Coalition Letter to Governor Beshear: Continue Critical Commitment to Federal Unemployment Benefits

Expanded Unemployment Benefits are a Crucial Bridge for Kentuckians and Our 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

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

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

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

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

How the American Rescue Plan Helps Kentuckians

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