Revenue Options that Strengthen the Commonwealth
Kentucky has good options to fairly generate new revenue and put an end to year after year of deep cuts...
Research
Shifting Health Costs to Employees Has Become Way State Plugs Budget
To view the brief in PDF form, click here. Kentucky has shifted more of the responsibility to pay for health benefits to public sector workers in recent years and then...
Governor Presents Austere Budget that Cuts Public Investments Further and Dedicates More for Pension Liabilities
To view in PDF form, click here. Governor Bevin’s budget proposal includes major cuts to higher education institutions and across other areas of state government where funding has been reduced...
2016 Kentucky Budget Primer
The Budget of the Commonwealth is a financial plan, enacted every two years by Kentucky’s General Assembly, that maps out our state’s investments in education, health, transportation, public safety, human services...
Diversion of Lottery Funds Undermines College Affordability
According to law, 55 percent of lottery profits are supposed to pay for need-based scholarships (after $3 million is given to literacy programs). For years, though, millions of scholarship dollars...
Investing in Kentucky’s Future: A Preview of the 2016-2018 Kentucky State Budget
A comprehensive preview of the upcoming two-year Kentucky state budget confirms both a massive funding gap facing the state for the next two years and a need for reinvestment in...
Facing Challenges with the New GED Test in Kentucky
Facing Challenges with the New GED Test in Kentucky[1.The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy is a non-partisan initiative that conducts research, analysis and education on important policy issues facing the...
A County-by-County Look at the Medicaid Expansion
A total of 425,782 Kentuckians were insured through the Medicaid expansion as of October. By county, between 3.7 and 19.1 percent of the population were covered and a total of...
Eastern Kentucky, Veterans Affairs Workers Benefiting From Raised Minimum Wage for State Workers
More than 800 Kentucky workers have benefited across the Commonwealth because of the executive order raising the minimum wage for state workers and contractors signed last summer by outgoing Gov....
Raising Minimum Wage Would Reduce Spending on Medicaid
Those advocating to scale back Kentucky’s highly-successful Medicaid expansion cite a concern about its cost to the state. One way to help buffer costs would be to raise the minimum...