Undocumented Immigrants Contribute $37 Million Toward Investments in Kentucky Each Year
Undocumented immigrants living in Kentucky pay $36.6 million in state and local taxes each year, according to a new report...
Jobs & The Economy
Too Many Kentuckians Remain Underemployed
A close look at the employment level of Kentucky’s working age population shows more progress is needed to reach full economic recovery, as we recently noted. Another measure, called the...
Many Kentuckians Work in Bad Jobs
Anecdotal claims are often made that many good jobs are available across the state but Kentucky lacks a workforce skilled and responsible enough to fill those jobs. But the fact...
Not Yet to Full Economic Recovery
The economy as a whole has been slowly improving and Kentucky’s unemployment rate has fallen from 10.9 percent in June 2009 to 4.8 percent now — the lowest rate since...
Low Wages at Bottom Demonstrate Need for Policies that Boost Earnings
Following meaningful wage growth in 2015, real wages dropped slightly for Kentucky workers in 2016 and are still below where they were back in 2001. With wages low for a...
Refugees, Immigrants Important to Kentucky and the Economy: An Overview of the Research
From the promise to build a wall paid for by tariffs on Mexican imports and uncertainty about what will happen to DACA (which allows undocumented immigrants whose parents brought them...
Kentucky Would Have the Second Highest Rate of Job Loss With Healthcare Law Repeal
If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, Kentucky’s rate of job loss would be the second worst of any state with the elimination of an estimated 55,949 jobs or nearly...
Mix of Criminal Justice Bills So Far in 2017 General Assembly
With Kentucky’s growing inmate population and high rates of recidivism, what we need in 2017 is legislation that will make these problems better, not worse. The criminal justice bills filed...
Cutting Wages No Way to Grow Kentucky’s Economy
Legislative leaders say the 2017 Kentucky General Assembly will focus on jobs and the economy. That priority is welcome given challenges across the state. But the policy issues reportedly topping...
Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Worsen Job Quality, Harm Kentucky Economy
Good-paying jobs like those in construction are the foundation of a healthy middle class and growing economy, and a skilled construction workforce builds the high-quality physical infrastructure necessary for growth....