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U.S. House of Representatives Protects Families by Passing a Short-Term Reauthorization of TANF, Program Flaws Must Be Addressed Before Long-Term Reauthorization

In order to beat their end-of-September-deadline, the House of Representatives passed a short-term extension of TANF – Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Kentucky’s own Congressman Geoff Davis led the reauthorization effort as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources. This good news means that funding provided to states through block grants for programs like income assistance for low-income families with children, welfare-to-work efforts, work supports such as child care, and [...]

By |2011-09-26T09:23:56-04:00September 26th, 2011|Blog, Economic Security|
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State Earned Income Tax Credit Now Would Help Alleviate Child Poverty in Kentucky

As we learned today through today’s new Census data, more children in Kentucky are living in poverty than in recent years, and so are all Kentuckians. Child poverty in Kentucky increased to 26.3 percent in 2010 from 20.8 percent in 2000, bringing the total number of children who live in families with incomes below $22,050 a year for a family of four to 262,760. Additionally, total poverty rose from 15.8 percent in 2000 to 19 [...]

By |2011-09-22T09:26:04-04:00September 22nd, 2011|Blog, Economic Security|
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Kentucky Economic Watch: SNAP Participation Continues to Increase

I feel as though I’ve become a bit of a broken record lately – at least when it comes to our monthly Kentucky Economic Watch. The recession has ended, but Kentuckians are still suffering. SNAP is up, unemployment is down, and state revenues are improving. This has been the case since May, and it all continued to play out in July. This time, I’d like to take a closer look at the mechanics of the [...]

By |2011-08-31T09:57:57-04:00August 31st, 2011|Blog, Economic Security, Health|
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Hand-in-hand: Health and Economic Well-being

Often, our work at KYA cuts across sectors. We talk about the juvenile justice system, and we find ourselves taking into account alternative education programs. We talk about health, and we find ourselves talking about larger economic well-being issues (for an example of the latter, you can see our most recent publication on Medicaid Managed Care Programs in Kentucky). The idea of taking two issues hand-in-hand is not a new one. The Robert Wood Johnson [...]

By |2011-08-24T10:03:43-04:00August 24th, 2011|Blog, Health, Youth Justice|
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We’re Hot in Washington

We picked a hot time to visit with Kentucky’s Congressional delegation in Washington, D.C, both literally and figuratively.… We spent a lot of time trying not to melt in the heat on our walks between offices, while sensing the intense heat Congress faces to address the current budget crisis. As we waited for each of our meetings to begin, staffers were frantically answering phones trying to keep up with call after call about the debt [...]

By |2011-07-28T10:32:42-04:00July 28th, 2011|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Health, Youth Justice|
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