Poll says voters don't want Biden OR Trump in 2024. Guess who they DO want?
It's WAY too early to talk about 2024 – but that hasn't stopped pollsters from doing it! Here's a summary of a recent poll with some interesting results. Enjoy!
Analysis & Policy
Articles that dig into an issue, policy, or story, and present relevant research and insights.
Statement: Expiration of unemployment benefits will increase hardship, will not improve state’s jobs picture
September 4 will be the last day for three jobless benefit programs, leaving nearly 40,000 Kentuckians without income from unemployment insurance as the Delta variant of COVID-19 is surging through the commonwealth.
SE Kentucky – a world of hurt, and about to get much worse
If you've got an area that already deals with a number of challenges, and you throw two more challenges on top, what happens? SE Kentucky is about to find out.
Kentucky below average in COVID safety
The web site WalletHub put together an analysis of the safest sites during COVID-19, and Kentucky ranked at 38th – well below both the average and median of all 50 states.
Cameron is wrong: Public business on private devices is still a public record
Chances are we will soon see an explosion in the use of privately-owned devices by public officials and employees to conduct public business. The public’s right to know will be the first casualty of Cameron’s anything but “consistent” finding.
Student debt relief still needed as college year begins in Kentucky
New census data shows those struggling the most with student debt are also among the hardest hit by COVID-19’s economic impacts. Scholars and advocates continue to call for student debt relief as an effective policy tool for economic stability and recovery.
Poll: Voters overwhelmingly support vaccine and mask mandates
An overwhelming majority of Americans — including clear majorities of Independents and a high number of Republicans — support vaccine and mask mandates for various public spaces and professions.
Paul and Massie repeatedly use Twitter to cast doubt on public-health experts' opinions on vaccination and masking, CJ reports
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Fourth District Rep. Thomas Massie have made repeated posts in Twitter "casting doubt on public health experts' consensus that people should mask up and get vaccinated to fight Covid-19," reports Morgan Watkins, political writer for the Louisville Courier Journal.
Record surplus creates opportunity to reinvest in Kentucky
For once, we are looking at large surpluses in our state budget. Our lawmakers need to use those surpluses to invest in our state and our people.
Schools can reopen safely – an epidemiologist describes what works and what’s not worth the effort
I have spent the past year and a half working with epidemiologists and health professionals to evaluate the scientific evidence about COVID-19. We concluded that vaccines and masking work well for preventing outbreaks in schools, but other strategies are probably not worth the effort.
Systemic Racism: Fact, Not Theory (part 2)
Ken Wolf continues his analysis of systemic racism in America, and conservatives' continued denial of its existence.
Systemic racism is fact, not theory
Many people are arguing that systemic racism no longer exists in the United States, and that talking about it makes things worse. Ken Wolf disagrees, on both counts.
Voting with disabilities: Major improvements in Kentucky
In 2016, Kentucky was dead last in disability voting rates. In 2020, we had the largest increase in disability voting rates in the country. Dr. Neal Turpin explains why.
The four groups pushing the sham CRT controversy – and why
A graduate-level academic framework that virtually no one had heard of a year ago has now become a reason for new fights, new laws, and near-riots at school board meetings. But who is behind this?
Daniel Cameron, the Breonna Taylor case, and the grand jury, explained (hypothetically)
Daniel Cameron is set to soon present his findings in the Breonna Taylor case to a grand jury. What you THINK that means and what it actually COULD mean are laid out by Anora Morton. Hypothetically, of course.
