Lack of Adequate Revenue to Make Needed Investments in Commonwealth Sets Up the Most Difficult Budget Session in Years
Round after round of damaging budget cuts, a decades-long refusal to clean up tax breaks, and the reality that additional...
Press Release
Tax Plan an Enormous Giveaway to the Wealthy that Will Harm Kentucky Families
Will Kentucky’s Congressional Delegation Make It Worse By Voting to Cut Critical Programs in 2018? After both the U.S. House and Senate voted to pass the GOP tax bill, Jason...
Statement on Justice Reinvestment Work Group Recommendations
The Justice Reinvestment work group has laid important groundwork for needed reforms to our justice system with the recommendations they released today. Continuing to grow the inmate population is incredibly...
Senate Votes to Give Massive Tax Cuts to Corporations and the Wealthy While Harming Middle Class and Working Kentuckians
Following Senate passage of the Republican tax bill, Jason Bailey, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, released the following statement: “Both the Senate and House tax bills...
Kentucky Continues to Cut Funding for Education
Kentucky continues to undermine state funding for K-12 education, once again landing in the bottom 3 states for cuts to core school funding since the Great Recession, according to a...
U.S. House Tax Plan: Benefit for Richest 1 Percent in Kentucky Grows Over Time
A new 50-state analysis of the U.S. House tax plan released last week reveals that in Kentucky the wealthiest 1 percent of Kentuckians would receive the greatest share of the...
GOP Tax Plan Offers Nothing to Most Kentuckians While Paving the Way for Cuts to Education, Health Care and Other Key Programs
Following the release of the U.S. House’s new tax proposal, Anna Baumann, research and policy analyst for the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, released the following statement: “The House tax...
Revenue Options Provide Solution to Kentucky’s Pension Funding Problems
As the governor, legislative leaders and stakeholders wrestle with potential harmful changes to pension benefits of Kentucky public employees, a new report from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (KCEP)...
Census Data Shows Too Little Improvement in Poverty and Income in Kentucky to Suggest Full Recovery
New American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2016 released today by the U.S. Census shows poverty didn’t budge and income only increased slightly in Kentucky from 2015. The poverty rate...
New Census Data Shows Continued Gains in Health Insurance Coverage Thanks to ACA
U.S. Census data released today shows Kentucky continued its historic progress in reducing the share of Kentuckians without health insurance coverage in 2016, down to only 5.1 percent compared to...