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Sequestration Cutting Housing Assistance for Thousands of Low-Income Kentuckians

As many as 4,000 fewer low-income Kentucky families will receive rental assistance by the end of 2014 if Congress does...

Anna Baumann | November 7, 2013

875,000 Kentuckians to See a Cut in Food Assistance Beginning Today

Beginning today, 875,000 Kentuckians will see their food assistance benefits cut when a temporary boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) expires. All of...

Jason Bailey | October 29, 2013

Budget Cuts Further Widen Education Funding Gaps

Cuts to state and federal funding for education are leading to greater reliance on local revenue sources and exacerbating funding inequity between school districts, as described in a Louisville Courier-Journal...

Jason Bailey | October 21, 2013

Kentucky Among States with Biggest Coverage Assistance from Health Reform

Kentucky is one of three states in the nation where more than four out of five of the uninsured will be eligible for health coverage assistance under the Affordable Care...

Jason Bailey | October 18, 2013

Kentucky Fast Food Workers Struggle with Low Wages While Industry Does Well

Kentucky's 32,000 frontline fast-food workers make such low wages that 46 percent of them qualify for low-income public assistance programs at a cost of $115 million in 2011, according to...

Jason Bailey | October 15, 2013

Revenue Forecast for Next Budget Remains Weak

Today the official group charged with forecasting state revenue again approved a very modest General Fund revenue estimate for the upcoming two-year budget. Compared to the draft forecast they chose...

Anna Baumann | October 11, 2013

Kentucky Scores Poorly in Report on Women’s Well-Being

Kentucky gets a D+ and ranks behind two-thirds of other states in terms of women’s status, according to a recent report by the Center for American Progress. The detailed report...

Anna Baumann | October 9, 2013

Health Reform Is Increasing Coverage in Kentucky with More Gains Soon to Come

595,000 Kentuckians, or 13.9 percent of the state’s population, had no health insurance in 2012, according to data released today by the Census Bureau. But the new data also show...

Anna Baumann | September 19, 2013

Census: Number of Poor Kentuckians Remains High, Incomes Stagnant

Poverty in Kentucky remained high in 2012 and median income in the state is 6.4 percent below its pre-recession level, according to data released today by the Census Bureau. The...

Jason Bailey | September 19, 2013

Kentucky Among States that Have Substantially Cut Funding for Schools

Kentucky ranks fourteenth worst in the country in the depth of cuts to school funding since the start of the recession, and is one of fifteen states that have continued...

Jason Bailey | September 12, 2013

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