Governor’s Budget Includes Substantial Reinvestment in Education and Other Areas
The governor’s proposed budget uses the unprecedented recurring and surplus dollars available to reinvest in a range of areas with...
Analysis
What the Legislature Can Do to Improve the Return Home for Kentuckians Leaving Incarceration
Despite the harms to people, families and communities, Kentucky incarcerates 40% more people than the U.S. average. In addition, existing state and federal policies strip people reentering society of certain...
Further Shift Away from Income Taxes Would Worsen Inequities, Harm State’s Economy
As the 2022 Kentucky General Assembly approaches, some interested in more tax cuts for the wealthy are again pushing to shift Kentucky’s tax system away from income taxes and toward...
New Federal Infrastructure Law Moves Kentucky Forward
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which the President has now signed into law, includes much-needed new investments in modernizing Kentucky's physical infrastructure. The law funds a broad array...
School Funding Task Force Recommendations Include Steps Toward Adequacy and Equity
In 2021, the Kentucky General Assembly created a School Funding Task Force to meet in the interim to review funding for K-12 education in Kentucky and other states and identify...
How Kentuckians Would Benefit from the Build Back Better Act
Kentuckians’ economic future and family well-being hinge on passage of the Build Back Better Act (BBB) now in front of Congress. The legislation contains landmark policies that will create millions...
The Improved Child Tax Credit in Kentucky Parents’ Own Words — and Why It Should Be Permanent
The enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC) from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) has been a transformational policy, benefitting nearly 1 million Kentucky kids and lifting 69,000 out of poverty...
What to Know About Kentucky School Funding as Kids Head Back to School
Kids heading back to school this month will benefit from supports made possible by federal COVID relief. Against the backdrop of more than a decade of deep cuts to state...
Federal Relief Programs Cut Poverty in Kentucky by Two-Thirds This Year
Thanks to many programs enacted through COVID-related federal relief legislation, an estimated 707,000 fewer Kentuckians are living in poverty in 2021 than they would have otherwise — a reduction of...
Historic Surplus Leaves State in Strong Place to Begin Reinvesting in Kentucky’s Needs
Thanks to aggressive federal pandemic relief that has increased Kentuckians’ incomes and strengthened consumer spending, Kentucky’s budget is seeing large revenue surpluses that are boosting the state’s rainy day fund...