Lack of state funding for school transportation is hurting school districts, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy says.

Rural health funds should send just under $1.1 billion Kentucky, not even a tenth of what rural Kentucky is expected to lose in Medicaid funding.

Rural health funds should send just under $1.1 billion Kentucky, not even a tenth of what rural Kentucky is expected to lose in Medicaid funding.

One in three school districts (58 of the state’s 171) provided no raise for teachers and other certified employees this school year.

Kentucky has missed key fiscal targets within the state budget to allow for another future cut to the state’s income tax rate in 2028, the second year in a row and the third time in four years that su...

Throughout his life, Kentucky writer Wendell Berry described death not as an end, but as a stage in a cycle of renewal.

The number of Kentucky law enforcement agencies with ICE agreements has increased five-fold since July 2025.

Kentucky tax revenues in the past fiscal year fell well short of triggering an income tax cut in 2028, marking the third time in four years the trigger was missed.

In some Kentucky communities where hyperscale data centers are being proposed, leaders in local governments and school districts are eyeing a potential tax windfall.

Working Kentuckians are in an increasingly difficult labor market in 2026, with no net job growth, rising costs and wages that aren’t keeping up.

In the second year of Kentucky's House Bill 5, law enforcement agencies filed more unlawful camping charges than the first year.

Lawmakers expanded a data center tax break in 2025. Now, policy experts are questioning hand-outs to the world’s wealthiest companies.

Lawmakers expanded a data center tax break in 2025. Now, policy experts are questioning hand-outs to the world’s wealthiest companies.

When the trickle of interest in data centers became a flood, and when the proposals swelled from small data centers to massive hyperscale complexes, concerned Kentuckians began speaking out.

Promised local revenue from Kentucky data centers may be much smaller than advertised due to significant potential tax breaks.

Under current law, Kentucky could give away billions in tax breaks to data center developers.

Under current law, Kentucky could give away billions in tax breaks to data center developers.

For tens of thousands of Kentuckians with an intellectual or developmental disability, or who are simply getting older and less able to care for themselves, Medicaid services provided at home and in t...

Cuts to SNAP, school food programs impacting thousands in region Targeted by Trump administration initiatives, key funds feeding local children have faced ongoing reductions and cancellations, with th...

Kentucky’s food insecurity ranked second highest in the nation between 2022 and 2024 and conditions have only worsened.

While Kentuckians across the state will be hurt by Medicaid cuts, residents of these counties will be harmed more than others.