Kentucky's economic numbers are a mixed bag in the 2024 American Community Survey released last week. (Getty Images) Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of ...

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 state ...

Twenty-one percent of Kentucky children live in poverty, and the state ranks 40th in the nation for child well-being. Louisville has the fifth highest percentage of residents living in poverty ...

Many states reaped benefits from federal coronavirus pandemic aid, but that well is now drying up. Dustin Pugel, policy director at the left-leaning Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, said with ...

(LEX 18) — A recent report from a non-partisan, independent organization looked at the state of minimum wage in Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, never before had it been ...

Jefferson County Public School students transfer buses at the Nichols Bus Compound on Friday, August 18, 2023. JCPS had to rethink their strategy after the first day of school saw students arriving ...

JOINS US NOW IN STUDIO WITH MORE ON HOW SHE PLANS TO DO IT. DREW. WELL, RICK, CHILD POVERTY IS AN ISSUE THAT TOUCHES REALLY EVERY PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH. SENATOR CASSIE CHAMBERS ARMSTRONG HAS FILED ...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Poverty and hunger can go hand and hand. Advocates say these issues can affect your neighbors and often go unseen. “For most of us its no problem to go to our cabinets or our ...

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Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of Kentuckians living in poverty exceeds the national rate and the state is the nation’s 46th poorest. The American Community ...