Kentucky Among 10 States with Fastest-Growing Income Inequality
Income gaps widened more in Kentucky than in all but eight other states between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s...
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State Must Face Pension Debt
Over the last several years, much of the focus given to Kentucky’s pension system has been on ways to shift new employees into some version of a 401(k)-style retirement plan....
Health Care Law Will Benefit Kentuckians In Many Ways
The Supreme Court's decision that the health care reform law is constitutional has not brought an end to ideological attacks on the law and calls for its full repeal. Now,...
Given Kentucky’s Budget Downpour, State Should Use Rainy Day Fund
The budget the Senate passed on Thursday would not use any of the $122 million sitting in the state’s rainy day fund to help reduce cuts to essential services. In...
Principles Critical to Effective Tax Reform
In his inaugural address, Gov. Steve Beshear called on the state to build a "foundation for a better tomorrow" by restructuring Kentucky's tax system in his second term. His call...
Persistent Unemployment and Stagnant Wages Mark Labor Day 2011
Coming over two years after the recession officially ended, Labor Day 2011 should be a time to celebrate a return to growth and prosperity. But the reality is much different...
Focus on Spending Cuts Ignores Revenue Problem
Kentucky is in great need of a substantive conversation about how to better fund essential services in its state budget. But by ignoring the state’s revenue problems, the Kentucky Chamber...
State Shouldn’t Cut Corporate Taxes
While legislative leaders in the Kentucky House and Senate have floated the idea of eliminating Kentucky’s corporate income tax, a new report shows that such a move is likely to...
Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Break an American Promise
For most advanced countries, health care is treated as a societal covenant in which all citizens have coverage for treatment of sickness, pain and disability. America has never made that...
Proposed Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Break an American Promise
For most advanced countries, health care is treated as a societal covenant in which all citizens have coverage for treatment of sickness, pain and disability. America has never made that...