Kentucky has rapidly become a casino state as legalized slot machine gambling has proliferated across the bluegrass in recent years. With 13 facilities now operating thousands of slot machines, the amount bet on slots in Kentucky has more than quadrupled from $2.3 billion in 2020 to $10.5 billion in the 2025 fiscal year. Deceptive marketing […]| Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
Proposed cuts to Medicaid risk 35 rural hospital closures in Kentucky alone, more than any other state in the nation.| Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
Two parts of Trump’s 2017 tax law that are particularly expensive and beneficial to the richest individuals are the changes in income tax rates and brackets and the special deduction for “pass-through” business owners. Lawmakers should not extend these provisions for high-income households past the end of this year, when they are scheduled to expire.| ITEP
The federal estate tax has reached historic lows. In 2019, only 8 of every 10,000 people who died left an estate large enough to trigger the tax. Legislative changes under presidents of both parties have increased the basic exemption from the estate tax over the past 20 years. This has cut the share of adults leaving behind taxable estates down from more than 2 percent to well under 1 percent.| ITEP
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a vital source of assistance that helps put food on the table for hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians. As of 2022, in Kentucky it provided food assistance to 225,000 children, 73,000 people over the age of 60, 61,000 people with disabilities under the age of 60 and 42,000 […]| Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
