• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

   

  • About Us
  • Press Room
  • Donate
  • Summer Policy Institute 2023

Research That Works for Kentucky

  • Topics
    • Budget & Tax
    • Criminal Justice
    • Economic Security
    • Education
    • Health Care
    • Jobs & The Economy
  • Types
    • News
    • Op-Ed
    • Research

   

  • About Us
  • Press Room
  • Donate
  • Summer Policy Institute 2023

Copyright © 2023 KyPolicy Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Sitemap

Analysis

Untitled design 3

HB 444 Leaves $110 Million On the Table for State Worker Pay

Last year, the General Assembly provided a badly-needed 8% raise for state workers in fiscal year 2023, reversing a 14-year...

Dustin Pugel | March 7, 2023

Untitled design 4

‘Transplant’ Bill Would Give Large Windfall to Companies Recruiting Remote Workers

A bill aimed at relocating higher-income remote workers to Kentucky could cost the state up to $200 million and widen inequality without necessarily drawing many people to Kentucky who aren’t...

Jason Bailey and Pam Thomas | March 7, 2023

aedrian ECt01A5HZtw unsplash

House Bill 3 Proposes Harmful, Regressive Policy Changes to Kentucky’s Juvenile System

A robust body of research shows that locking kids behind bars harms their mental and physical well-being, gets in the way of their education, makes them more likely to be...

Ashley Spalding and Pam Thomas | March 7, 2023

Untitled design 1

SB 225 Proposes Much-Needed Changes to Kentucky’s Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) Law 

For the last 40 years, Kentucky’s persistent felony offender (PFO) law has added decades to prison sentences of convicted Kentuckians, contributing significantly to Kentucky's much-too high incarceration rate. Advocates have...

Kaylee Raymer and Ashley Spalding | March 6, 2023

FTS 1024x768 1

House Bill 353 Would Save Lives by Decriminalizing Fentanyl Testing Strips

With overdose deaths on the rise, and a growing need to assist Kentuckians battling substance use disorder, the General Assembly has an opportunity to move the state in a positive...

Kaylee Raymer | March 1, 2023

pexels cottonbro studio 5867700

Nearly 250,000 Kentuckians Covered by Medicaid Will Need to Take Action to Stay Covered

For the past three years, 1.7 million Kentuckians on Medicaid have not had to take action to keep their health care coverage. Since that time, thanks to a policy designed...

Dustin Pugel | February 28, 2023

FYyX9deXkAIV AM

Eastern Kentucky Needs Legislature’s Help to Address Post-Flood Housing Crisis

Catastrophic floods wreaked havoc in eastern Kentucky last July, killing 44 people and requiring 1,334 more to be rescued by boat and helicopter. The floods also destroyed or seriously damaged...

Jason Bailey | February 15, 2023

gavel

Ailing Juvenile System Needs Investment and Care, Not Harsher Penalties

The bipartisan working group on Kentucky’s Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) wrapped up last week, and the legislature heads back into session tomorrow. There are several key issues to keep...

Ashley Spalding and Pam Thomas | February 6, 2023

snap

How Kentucky Turned Away Half a Billion Dollars in Grocery Help

February 2023 is the last month many low-income food assistance recipients across the country will get additional help buying groceries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Kentucky that aid ended...

Dustin Pugel | February 1, 2023

ky house of representatives

Top House Priorities Show Conflict Between Reducing Revenues and Rising Costs

The House's top priority (HB 1) in the 2023 legislative session is a bill to continue reducing the state's income tax, the source of nearly half of state revenue. Lawmakers...

Jason Bailey | January 31, 2023

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 74
  • Go to Next Page »

Sidebar

Primary Sidebar

Get KyPolicy news updates in your inbox

Sign Up

Ky. Policy

Footer

Research that works for Kentucky

433 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY 40403

Phone: 859-756-4605

General information and inquiries: info@kypolicy.org

   

Help us make the facts free and accessible to everyone. That’s how Kentucky will thrive.

Donate

  • Topics
    • Budget & Tax
    • Criminal Justice
    • Economic Security
    • Education
    • Health Care
    • Jobs & The Economy
  • Work
    • News
    • Op-Ed
    • Research
  • About Us
  • Press Room
  • Contact

Get KyPolicy news updates in your inbox

Sign Up

Copyright © 2023 KyPolicy Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Sitemap

made by P&P