The Kentucky General Assembly recently enacted a new state budget that underfunds Medicaid relative to the agency’s request, resulting in the administration announcing 4% cuts in the payment rates to ...

The state of working Kentucky in 2024 includes good news on jobs but within the context of longstanding economic challenges and persistent pressures on household budgets. A rapid economic recovery has ...

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 ...

The sponsors of House Bill (HB) 5, which will significantly increase incarceration in Kentucky by harshening penalties and lengthening sentences for a broad array of crimes, claim that the ...

This November, Kentuckians will vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would permit the General Assembly to spend public money on private schools. 1 This report aims to examine what ...

The passage of Congress’s major budget and tax legislation, titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), sets up a frightening future in our commonwealth. The law will take health coverage and food ...

The Senate’s version of the next two-year state budget eases some of the cuts included in the House budget, which passed in late February, by spending funds the House allocated to the already-large ...

In 1991, following a Kentucky Supreme Court decision finding that Kentucky’s system of funding education was unconstitutional, the Kentucky General Assembly responded by increasing taxes to begin ...

Kentucky has rapidly become a casino state as legalized slot machine gambling has proliferated across the bluegrass in recent years. With 13 facilities now operating thousands of slot machines, the ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of 2011’s House Bill (HB) 463, “The Public Safety and Offender Accountability Act.” 1 HB 463 was the last significant broad-based reform to Kentucky ...

The massive surge in proposed data centers is prompting intense debates about their costs and benefits. One question emerging across the country is whether and to what extent states should subsidize ...

As Kentucky students head back to school this month, state funding for K-12 education continues to fall well below past efforts, preventing overdue investments to shrink class size, increase student ...