Kentucky Should Not Follow Kansas Down the Income Tax Cutting Road
Four years after Kansas began its “real live experiment” cutting taxes for wealthy and powerful interests, the damaging consequences –...
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The Financial Condition of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Industry in Kentucky
To view this as a PDF, click here. State legislation enacted in recent decades has limited workers’ compensation benefits in Kentucky. As a result, workers’ compensation insurers have benefited, which...
Inheritance Tax Repeal Is Giveaway to the Top Kentucky Can’t Afford
To view this brief in PDF format, click here. Since 1906, Kentucky has relied on the inheritance tax to help pay for the good schools, infrastructure and other investments that...
Kentucky’s Repeat Offender Laws Need Reform
Last week Kentucky’s Public Advocate Ed Monahan testified to the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary that the state needs to reform its Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) laws. This is also...
Social Security Keeps Kentuckians Out of Poverty and Boosts Local Economies
Social Security helps nearly a million Kentuckians make ends meet, cuts senior poverty dramatically and supports local economies by ensuring more people have money in their pockets to spend, as...
Key Mechanism for Growing Middle Class in Kentucky Is Still Broken
Wages for Kentucky workers finally grew last year, suggesting both a tightening labor market and pointing to strong recent growth in manufacturing and health care jobs, among other industries. But...
Kentucky’s Performance Funding Design Should Work to Prevent Unintended Consequences Reported in Neighboring States
A new book by leading education policy researchers highlights some of the unintended consequences resulting from performance funding for higher education in three of Kentucky’s neighboring states — Indiana, Ohio...
Closing Tax Breaks at the Top Will Generate Needed Revenue, Not Cause Millionaire Tax Flight
A study recently published in the American Sociological Review validates efforts to strengthen investments in education, health and other key areas by cleaning up tax breaks for those at the...
The Path to a Stronger Commonwealth: Prioritizing Investments in Our Communities Over Tax Breaks for the Powerful
Kentucky faces a choice: cleaning up our tax code of special interest tax breaks so we can invest in excellent schools, a healthy and skilled workforce, modern infrastructure and other building blocks of thriving communities in the...
New Urgency for State Minimum Wage Action
The decision by the Supreme Court of Kentucky invalidating local minimum wage increases means 76,000 working Kentuckians in our two biggest cities now must look to the General Assembly for...