EARN in Kentucky

Kentucky Network publications

• Final State Budget Should Do More for Child Care to Protect Families and Jobs

  • March 20, 2024
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Dustin Pugel
  Care Economy EARN in the South Family Economic Security Public Services and Employment

• The Right to a Break Is Just One of the Worker Freedoms on the Line

  • March 7, 2024
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Jason Bailey
  EARN in the South Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality Worker Hours and Fair Scheduling

• Kentucky’s Kids Don’t Need Us to Drag Child Labor Laws Back to the 19th Century

  • March 7, 2024
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Adam K. Raymond
  EARN in the South Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• HB 465 Will Further Undermine Worker Protections and Job Quality

  • February 16, 2024
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Jason Bailey
  EARN in the South Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Kentucky Average Teacher Pay Fails to Keep Up with Inflation in Most Districts, Remains Far Behind 2008 Levels

  • December 15, 2023
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Dustin Pugel
  EARN in the South Wages

• When Higher Ed Is a Lower Priority: Kentucky Campus Workers Sound the Alarm

  • December 13, 2023
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  EARN in the South Education Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Union Victories Could Spark New Blue Collar Power in the Bluegrass

  • November 28, 2023
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Jason Bailey
  EARN in the South Unions and Worker Power

• Tracking the Economic Recovery from COVID-19 in Kentucky

  • April 3, 2023
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Dustin Pugel

  As more Kentuckians are vaccinated, and as consumer demand remains strong, people are returning to work in greater numbers and Kentucky’s economy is beginning to improve. While the Delta and […]

• The State of Working Kentucky 2022

  • September 1, 2022
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
  • Dustin Pugel

  The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic downturn reshaped Kentucky’s economy in ways that are still revealing themselves thirty months after the virus arrived in the commonwealth. Part of the story […]

  State of Working X

• Expanded Unemployment Benefits are a Crucial Bridge for Kentuckians and Our Economy

  • June 7, 2021
  • Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

  This column ran in the Kentucky New Era and the Northern Kentucky Tribune on June 4, and the Courier-Journal on June 7, 2021. Signed: Advocacy Action Network Ashland Area Labor Council Forward Kentucky Greater Louisville Central […]