County, Rural Roads Will Lose Millions Without Gas Tax Freeze
The clock is ticking on the 2015 session and legislators have yet to guard Kentucky’s city and county roads and...
Analysis
Inaction on Gas Tax Will Drop Rate to Historically Low Levels
lf legislators end the 2015 session without preventing the pending 5.1 cent drop in the gas tax, the rate will fall to a level near its historic low over the...
Local Economies Harmed If Lawmakers Fail to Safeguard Road Fund
With just two days left in the 2015 General Assembly, legislators are running out of time to protect the Road Fund from another decrease in the motor fuels tax. On...
Minority Working Families in Kentucky Far Behind Economically
A new report highlights a sharp racial/ethnic divide among working families in Kentucky. While the majority of low-income working families in the state are white, 52 percent of minority working...
How Sentencing and Costs Compare in Heroin Bills
The following table shows how proposed changes to Kentucky’s current heroin trafficking laws—including the House’s new proposal from last night (SB 192)—would affect sentencing and corrections costs. Increasing sentences and/or...
Corporations Shouldn’t Get Pass on Local Option Sales Tax
Large, profitable corporations are now saying they shouldn't have to pay their share if the legislature moves forward with putting a local option sales tax on the ballot, according to...
New Gallup Poll Shows Kentucky Now a Leading State in Insurance Coverage
Kentucky is a standout state in reducing the share of people without health insurance, rocketing from 39th to 11th among the states in its rate of uninsured according to a...
Bill Would Provide Greater Retirement Security for Workers at Kentucky Small Businesses
A concerning number of Americans are financially unprepared for retirement, and a contributing factor is that many lack a retirement plan offered through their jobs. But a bill in the Kentucky...
Misclassification Harms State Budget as Well as Workers
House Bill 256 would help Kentucky workers as well as the state’s budget by cracking down on the growing problem of misclassification of workers as independent contractors, with a focus...
Kentucky Must Reject Deeply Dangerous Call for Constitutional Convention
A proposal that could throw the country into chaos and jeopardize the U. S. Constitution is being pushed in states across the country this year, and in the Kentucky legislature...