Rural Kentucky Population Continues Decline While Urban and Suburban Areas Grow
Recently released population estimates from the Census show that, over the last five years, Kentucky continues to urbanize. Rural eastern...
Jobs & The Economy
A Fourth of Kentucky’s Salaried Workforce Will Benefit Under Increase to Overtime Threshold
An estimated 149,000 salaried Kentucky workers will become entitled to overtime protections under President Obama’s increase to the overtime salary threshold announced today, according to an analysis from the Economic...
Kentucky’s Lopsided Recovery Continues
Job growth in Kentucky’s recovery continues to be concentrated in a minority of counties located in more prosperous parts of the state while many rural Kentucky counties face employment conditions that...
Kentucky’s Class of 2016 Faces Lingering Slack in Labor Market
Despite improvement, the labor market is still weak for young Kentuckians graduating from high school and college in 2016 according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)....
Budget Should Move Forward on Early Childhood, Not Back
Quality early childhood education, through child care and preschool, has been shown to have multiple layers of value: It helps the economy by generating jobs and economic activity, as well...
With Medicaid Expansion, Kentucky Healthcare Job Growth Picked Up in 2015
After modest growth in health care and social assistance jobs during the first year of Medicaid expansion, growth picked up at a rapid pace in 2015, according to newly-revised Bureau...
Three Steps to a Better Budget this Session
The General Assembly has less than two months to finalize the next two-year state budget. Although the governor’s budget rightly takes a big step toward fully funding our pension liabilities,...
Research Shows Disconnect Between States’ Job Creation Policies and Real World Job Growth
New analysis shows the vast majority of job growth in Kentucky (and all states) comes from in-state companies, calling into question the state’s focus on recruiting out-of-state businesses to the Commonwealth....
Eastern Kentucky, Veterans Affairs Workers Benefiting From Raised Minimum Wage for State Workers
More than 800 Kentucky workers have benefited across the Commonwealth because of the executive order raising the minimum wage for state workers and contractors signed last summer by outgoing Gov....
Raising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Spending on Medicaid
Those advocating to scale back Kentucky’s highly-successful Medicaid expansion cite a concern about its cost to the state. One way to help buffer costs would be to raise the minimum...