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...
Analysis
Kentucky Should Reject Dangerous Call to Reopen Constitution
The Kentucky General Assembly may consider resolutions (versions introduced as HJR 54, HCR 13 and SCR 143) that are part of a well-funded national effort calling for a new convention to rewrite the rules of...
Would Charter School Proposal Negatively Impact Funding of Kentucky’s Existing Public Schools?
One of the key questions about how charter school legislation would change education in Kentucky is how it would affect funding for traditional public schools. Looking at what has occurred in...
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...
Targeted Refugee Groups Make Important Contributions to Kentucky’s Communities and Economy
Two recent reports from the Center for American Progress (CAP) explore the contributions immigrants and refugees make in our communities and local economies – including Syrians and Somalians, two groups...
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If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, Kentucky’s rate of job loss would be the second worst of any state with the elimination of an estimated 55,949 jobs or nearly...
130,000 Kentuckians in Individual Market Would Lose Coverage from Health Reform Repeal
A partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act would likely result in close to half a million people becoming uninsured in Kentucky, including those who buy health coverage directly from...
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...
A County-by-County Look at Kentuckians at Risk if Congress Rolls Back Health Coverage
Nearly one in three Kentuckians has health insurance either through Medicaid or with a federally subsidized Qualified Health Plan (QHP) from the health insurance marketplace (formerly Kynect). If Congress moves...
Job Growth Claims from Right to Work Not Backed by Evidence
Proponents of Right-to-Work (RTW) argue that Kentucky would attract more jobs if such a law was in place, especially in manufacturing. But the evidence does not show our RTW neighbors have...