That's according to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy. Dustin Pugel, the center's policy director, said the $7.25 ...

KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — A report released in July revealed that, in the 16 years since Kentucky’s minimum wage increased, it has been driven below the poverty line for a full-time worker ...

Kentucky continues to have higher rates of children in poverty, teen pregnancies, and child and teen deaths than the national average, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday. The ...

In the report from Nursa, a healthcare staffing company, Kentucky ranked among the bottom 10 states for life expectancy, with ...

Kentucky’s 2014 Medicaid expansion improved health care and drug treatment in some of America’s poorest counties. Now, the ...

One of Kentucky’s longest-operating poverty and advocacy law groups, which also has a immigration law clinic, will pause its operations starting Friday, Jan. 31, board and staff confirmed ...

Kentucky poverty encompasses the stable workers—typically seasonal migrants who live in dorms, travel in horse trailers, and are lucky if they get minimum wage. End the Subsidies for Racetracks.

Kentucky’s kids are struggling in school more than they did pre-pandemic, according to a new report on child wellbeing from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

If child care were more available and affordable in the state, around 16,000-28,000 people could join or rejoin the workforce and that could add around $600 million, conservatively, to the ...

Queer Kentucky has installed 12 harm reduction lockers across the ... and the LGBTQ community is definitely one of those," Spears said. "If you look at rates of poverty, LGBTQ folks tend to be higher ...