To Address Mass Incarceration, Kentucky Must End Perverse Incentives to Expand and Crowd Local Jails
The United States incarcerates 5 times more people per capita than other wealthy countries. Yet, while some states are succeeding...
Op-Ed
Private School Tax Credit Program at Odds With Kentucky’s Constitution
The framers of Kentucky’s constitution made crystal clear the state’s responsibility to provide for a system of common, public schools across the commonwealth. And in 1989 the Kentucky Supreme Court...
Coalition Letter: Kentucky General Assembly Must Use Special Session to Protect the Health of Kentuckians, Our Workforce and Our Children’s Education
A coalition of Kentucky organizations sent this letter to the Kentucky General Assembly on September 3, and many new signatories were added in an updated letter (available as a PDF...
Honor Labor Day by Supporting Workers as if They Are Essential
Starting last year, as COVID-19 led people to social distance and quarantine, a new term entered the lexicon: "essential worker." Though everyday working people have always been the key to...
Student Debt Relief Still Needed as College Year Begins in Kentucky
As another college year begins amidst a resurging pandemic, new Census data shows those struggling the most with student debt are also among the hardest hit by COVID-19’s economic impacts....
Record Surplus Creates Opportunity to Reinvest in Kentucky
Kentucky lawmakers will have a historic opportunity to begin putting the state back on track for a brighter future next legislative session. Thanks to aggressive federal pandemic relief that has...
Expansion of the Child Tax Credit Is a Landmark Victory in the Fight Against Child Poverty. Let’s Not Let It Vanish Next Year.
Last week, Kentucky families began benefitting from the most extraordinary policy change to address child poverty in many decades — payments of up to $300 per child, per month to...
Medicaid Filled the COVID Coverage Gap
Last year when COVID-19 cases were escalating and the bottom fell out of the economy, hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians lost work. For many, this meant losing their health insurance...
Making Millionaires Finally Chip in Like the Rest of Us Would Pay for Transformational Public Investments in Kentucky
Kentucky has an opportunity to tackle its infrastructure challenges head on through proposed investments in President Biden’s American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan. From the lack of clean water...
Coalition Letter to Governor Beshear: Continue Critical Commitment to Federal Unemployment Benefits
Dear Governor Beshear, Thank you for your efforts and decisions to protect Kentuckians from economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are writing as a coalition of organizations representing Kentucky...