Less to Sweep from Health Fund in Next Budget
A fund for employees' health insurance that Kentucky has drained of increasingly large amounts of money in order to balance...
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With Proposed Barriers to Medicaid Gone, Kentucky Should Pursue Other Ways to Support Kentuckians’ Health
When all Kentuckians are able to meet basic needs and be healthy, they are equipped to contribute to their communities. Thanks to Governor Beshear’s recent withdrawal of a waiver proposal...
Forecast Confirms Weak Revenue Growth for Next Budget
The official body charged with predicting revenues for the state budget met yesterday and confirmed a weak revenue forecast for the next two years — meaning more budget cuts are...
Kentucky’s Youngest Kids Are Losing Health Coverage
Kentucky is 3rd-worst in the nation in its alarming recent rise in uninsured children below the age of 6. According to an analysis of the most recent census data by...
Slot Machines Multiplying Rapidly Across Kentucky While State Deeply Undertaxes Them
Betting using instant wagering machines, which resemble and operate similar to slot machines, has exploded across Kentucky and thousands more machines will come online in the near future. Yet the...
Increased Funding Is Improving Kentucky’s Pension Plans
The General Assembly’s return to making full contributions to Kentucky’s pension systems in recent years is improving the systems’ health, as shown in newly available year-end reports. The challenges that...
Policy Choices Pushing Kentucky’s Corporate Taxes Down
When the General Assembly meets to craft a new state budget starting in January, they will do so with less revenue available from corporations. The reduction in corporate tax revenues...
Proposed USDA Rule Would Limit Food for Kids in Kentucky, at Home and in School
In two ways, a proposed USDA rule change would leave more Kentucky children hungry. The change would make it harder for families to qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
Momentum Growing Among States to Abandon Barriers to Medicaid Coverage
Amid lawsuits, health coverage losses and high administrative costs, four of the ten states that have gained federal approval to take Medicaid coverage from people who don’t meet a work...
Half of Medicaid-Eligible Kentuckians Were Unaware of New Barriers to Health Coverage, According to Study
Roughly half of Medicaid enrollees in Kentucky had never heard of changes to Medicaid that could have led to the loss of their health coverage, according to new findings from...