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Kentucky Should Not Follow Kansas Down the Income Tax Cutting Road

Four years after Kansas began its “real live experiment” cutting taxes for wealthy and powerful interests, the damaging consequences –...

Anna Baumann | November 28, 2016

Kentucky’s Repeat Offender Laws Need Reform

Last week Kentucky’s Public Advocate Ed Monahan testified to the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary that the state needs to reform its Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) laws. This is also...

Ashley Spalding | November 11, 2016

Social Security Keeps Kentuckians Out of Poverty and Boosts Local Economies

Social Security helps nearly a million Kentuckians make ends meet, cuts senior poverty dramatically and supports local economies by ensuring more people have money in their pockets to spend, as...

Dustin Pugel | November 7, 2016

Key Mechanism for Growing Middle Class in Kentucky Is Still Broken

Wages for Kentucky workers finally grew last year, suggesting both a tightening labor market and pointing to strong recent growth in manufacturing and health care jobs, among other industries. But...

Anna Baumann | November 2, 2016

Kentucky’s Performance Funding Design Should Work to Prevent Unintended Consequences Reported in Neighboring States

A new book by leading education policy researchers highlights some of the unintended consequences resulting from performance funding for higher education in three of Kentucky’s neighboring states — Indiana, Ohio...

Ashley Spalding | October 27, 2016

Closing Tax Breaks at the Top Will Generate Needed Revenue, Not Cause Millionaire Tax Flight

A study recently published in the American Sociological Review validates efforts to strengthen investments in education, health and other key areas by cleaning up tax breaks for those at the...

Micah Johnson | October 27, 2016

New Urgency for State Minimum Wage Action

The decision by the Supreme Court of Kentucky invalidating local minimum wage increases means 76,000 working Kentuckians in our two biggest cities now must look to the General Assembly for...

Dustin Pugel | October 20, 2016

Dealing with the Risks of Public-Private Partnerships

While cleaning up tax breaks is the best way Kentucky can generate more revenue for needed investments in infrastructure, last year the legislature streamlined the process of contracting with private...

Gayle Bartilow | October 20, 2016

SNAP Works for Kentucky’s Children

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps Kentucky families put food on the table. But we now know that it accomplishes much more than that. Research increasingly shows that SNAP,...

Dustin Pugel | October 13, 2016

Comments to Washington on Proposed Medicaid Changes were 9 to 1 Against

The period to give input to the Cabinet for Health and Human Services (HHS) on Governor Bevin’s proposed changes to Medicaid ended last Saturday with a total of 1,749 responses. The...

Dustin Pugel | October 12, 2016

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