Tax Cut Is a Giveaway to the Wealthy That Will Damage Future Budgets
The General Assembly passed a new version of House Bill 8 (HB 8) that is expected to reduce the individual...
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Budget Agreement Includes Only Modest Increases in Most Areas of Budget, Salary Increases for State Workers
The 2022-2024 budget agreement announced today includes only very modest funding increases for critical state services across the budget. Investments in education and other areas are small, especially considering the...
Senate Version of HB 7 Still Makes It Harder to Get and Keep Food and Medical Assistance, Particularly for Working Families
Although substantially changed, the newest Senate version of House Bill 7 (HB 7) still puts up numerous paperwork barriers to food and medical assistance for Kentucky families and workers. HB...
Proposal Would Continue to Tax Slot Machines at Egregiously Low Level
A bill that was supposed to raise the tax on historical horse racing (HHR) slot machines (HB 607) doesn't increase the tax rate and only tinkers with the proceeds to...
HB 7 Will Cost $255 Million from Kentucky’s Budget and Harm the State’s Economy
House Bill 7 (HB 7) would introduce many new barriers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid, resulting in tens to hundreds of thousands of fewer Kentuckians receiving...
New Version of HB 7 Still Makes Food and Medical Assistance Much Harder to Get and Keep
Although substantially changed in committee last week, House Bill 7 (HB 7) still puts up numerous barriers to food and medical assistance for Kentucky families and workers. To Kentucky’s safety...
Pretrial Bills in the Kentucky General Assembly Are a Mixed Bag
Kentucky’s pretrial system — which determines whether a person charged with a crime waits for their day in court behind bars or at home — is arbitrary, unfair and rife...
Who Would Lose Food Assistance Under HB 7’s New Eligibility Tripwires?
Among its many tripwires and cuts to health care and food assistance, House Bill 7 (HB 7) would get rid of a highly efficient and effective policy for getting food...
Charter School Funding Proposal Is Inefficient, Costly and Will Harm Public Education
Legislation introduced in the Kentucky House would create a duplicative, wasteful and unaccountable system for authorizing and funding charter schools that runs counter to the characteristics of an efficient system...
Senate Budget Cuts Education Funding Further From Modest House Plan
Despite a once-in-a-generation budget surplus, the Senate budget includes $1.3 billion less in spending over the biennium than the already-modest House plan (and $2.8 billion less than the governor had...