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Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (KyPolicy for short): research, analysis, and education on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyOct 23
These cuts continue a long-term trend and are why 58 Kentucky school districts were not able to provide a raise to teachers and school employees this year kypolicy.org/2027-kentucky-t…

Teachers in a Third of Kentucky School Districts Received No Raise This Year - Kentucky Center for...

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

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyOct 23
In 3 out of 4 Kentucky school districts, the state is providing less in K-12 SEEK payments this year than last year. In Jefferson County, for example, that's a cut of $24 million. Counting inflation, 98% of districts are receiving less. 1/
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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyOct 23
In 3 out of 4 Kentucky school districts, the state is providing less in K-12 SEEK payments this year than last year. In Jefferson County, for example, that's a cut of $24 million. Counting inflation, 98% of districts are receiving less. 1/
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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyOct 16
Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/…

Proposed Mason County data center could get $50 million annual tax break, think tank estimates •...

A proposed Mason County data center campus for the technology company Meta could avoid paying about $50 million a year in local taxes. 

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WHAS11 News@WHAS11Oct 7
Tori Kantor, 49, is paralyzed but Medicaid only permits her to have in-home nurse care for 40 hours a week whas11.com/article/news/heal…

Medicaid cuts leave Louisville woman without aid over half the week

Tori Kantor, 49, is paralyzed but Medicaid only permits her to have in-home nurse care for 40 hours a week

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyOct 3
The government keeps child support owed to poorest Kentuckians. GOP lawmaker seeks change. kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/…

The government keeps child support owed to poorest Kentuckians. GOP lawmaker seeks change. •...

FRANKFORT — Around 14,000 families receiving Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program benefits in 2025 didn’t receive most child support owed to them, experts said Thursday. 

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KyPolicy@KyPolicySep 25
The soaring price of diesel is hitting KY school districts hard. Fuel that cost Clark County $19K last year is now $42K. Robertson County is warning about "drastic changes" due to diesel prices. All while the legislature continues to underfund public school transportation.
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Jason Bailey@jbaileykySep 22
Federal Medicaid cuts are a severe threat to rural hospitals in Kentucky, and the small rural health fund provided in HR 1 will not come anywhere close to stopping the harm. See the new @KyPolicy analysis for more 1/2
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🚗 Gas prices are hitting #EasternKentucky families hard. For many, transportation is the biggest line item after housing & higher fuel costs drive up groceries too. Affordability is the whole picture. That's why we build homes that are affordable & energy efficient. @KyPolicy – at Kentucky, USA
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Kroger is cutting prices because they're losing a ton of customers from low-income households. In their most recent earnings call they cite many reasons, one of them being a recent reduction in the number of people with SNAP. thestreet.com/retail/kroger-…

Kroger loses $12 billion as customer behavior takes a turn

Kroger is facing a growing challenge as new data sheds light on a concerning trend among its customers. 

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykySep 7
My piece on Wendell Berry’s relevance today kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/…

Commentary: Wendell Berry's death should be his revival in our culture • Kentucky Lantern

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

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Two years after its implementation, groups like the #Kentucky Center for Economic Policy (@KyPolicy) say House Bill 5, Kentucky’s statewide unlawful camping statute, continues to destabilize peoples’ lives. buff.ly/DNTEcBE

After two years of Kentucky camping ban, more fines, arrests

More homeless people have been cited or arrested for unlawful camping in the Commonwealth two years after House Bill 5, the state's unlawful camping statute, went into effect.Over the past

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykySep 2
A prominent Kentucky law firm is touting a loophole that could dramatically reduce the local taxes that data centers would pay kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/…

Some KY schools and local governments eye a data center tax windfall. A think tank sees loopholes....

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

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“I don't think data centers need incentives,” Beshear said. “I don't think we should be providing them.” Analysis from @KyPolicy shows the state could lose more than $2 billion of sales tax revenue if just four proposed data centers are built: lpm.org/news/2026-08-27/kent…

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear calls for ending state tax incentives for data centers

The Kentucky legislature in 2025 passed a law giving massive tax breaks to companies building data centers across the state, but Beshear wants those rolled back.

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyAug 27
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear calls for ending state tax incentives for data centers lpm.org/news/2026-08-27/kent…

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear calls for ending state tax incentives for data centers

The Kentucky legislature in 2025 passed a law giving massive tax breaks to companies building data centers across the state, but Beshear wants those rolled back.

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Beshear would support rolling back Kentucky’s data center tax breaks kentucky.com/news/politics-g…

Beshear would support rolling back Kentucky’s data center tax breaks

Though no qualifying project has been awarded a tax break from the state, Kentucky lawmakers are already angling at changing the incentive.

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyAug 27
Gov Beshear says on his update today: “I don’t think data centers need incentives. I don’t think we should be providing them. I would certainly support rolling back any of that. These are some of the wealthiest companies in human history, they can afford the construction”
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KY legislators continue to signal change is coming to data center tax incentive kentucky.com/news/politics-g…

KY legislators continue to signal change is coming to data center tax incentive

The data center sales tax exemption covers the purchase, use, installation, repair and replacement of equipment used in some facilities.

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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyAug 27
A 2nd Kentucky legislator who voted for data center tax breaks in ‘25 says “Now obviously I’m not for any type of tax breaks…for these mega data centers, & there is legislation that is going to be proposed in this upcoming session that is going to go back and take these away.”
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Jason Bailey@jbaileykyAug 17
More coverage of the @KyPolicy report on the billions of dollars Kentucky could lose from its tax breaks to data centers, from @heraldleader
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