Pew Charitable Trusts: Egged on by high grocery prices, cities are welcoming backyard chickens
By Alex Brown Stateline/Pew Charitable Trusts For five years, a woman known as the Chicken Lady of South Jersey urged…
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Pew Charitable Trusts: Kentucky among states where migrating professionals grow the black middle class
By Tim Henderson Stateline/Pew Charitable Trusts Erika Harrison, a Houston attorney who has lived in the area since she was…
Kentucky making progress on Pew Charitable Trusts recommendations on addressing opioid crises
Gov. Andy Beshear last week announced a bipartisan group of state leaders are making progress on recommendations from Pew Charitable…
Pew Charitable Trusts: A roundup of surveys on what Americans say about race and law enforcement
By Drew Desilver, Michael Lipka and Dala Fahmy Pew Charitable Trusts Days of protests across the United States in the wake of…
Children need 14 doctor visits before age 6, preschoolers increasingly not covered by insurance
Kentucky Health News In 2018, the number of Kentucky pre-schoolers without health insurance was about half again as large as…
Pew: Poll shows Americans want Congress to act to fix National Park’s $12b deferred maintenance
By Marcia Argust Pew Charitable Trusts Summer brings a big jump in visitors to national parks, along with a reminder…
Pew Trusts: Real ID causing real problems as states cope with changing rules and late rollouts
By Elaine S. Povich Pew Charitable Trusts In half a dozen states, including the most populous state of California, the…
Pew Trusts: Exchange programs helping Kentuckians embrace new areas, think beyond urban vs. rural
By April Simpson Pew Charitable Trusts It took going to law school a decade ago and meeting classmates from small…
Pew Trusts: Trump administration green lights major Medicaid changes; allows significant state cutbacks
By Michael Ollove Pew Charitable Trusts In a stark departure from past administrations, the Trump administration is allowing states to…
Pew Trusts: Former Kentucky mining towns embrace change, turn to tourism in wake of coal’s decline
By April Simpson Pew Charitable Trusts The same Main Street winds through the old mountain mining towns of Cumberland, Benham…
Pew Charitable Trusts: As shutdown continues, consider savings needed for unforeseen emergencies
Pew Charitable Trusts This one of a series that explores how financial shocks and emergency savings are related to the…
Pew Charitable Trusts: States almost ready to press the ‘panic button’ as federal shutdown rolls on
By Matt Vasilogambros Pew Charitable Trusts President Donald Trump’s warning that the partial federal government shutdown could last “for months or…
Pew Trusts: Kentucky among states to strengthen school-based suicide prevention laws in 2018
By Christine Vestal Pew Charitable Trusts For Portland resident Stephen Canova, thoughts of suicide came unexpectedly one December night. Then…
Pew Charitable Trusts: These pills could be the next U.S. drug epidemic, public health officials say
The Pew Charitable Trusts The growing use of anti-anxiety pills reminds some doctors of the early days of the opioid…
Pew Charitable Trusts: Kentucky at high-risk to see revenues decline if negotiations on NAFTA tank
By Dave Nycaepir Route Fifty Implementation of U.S.-China tariffs or withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement would have…
Pew Charitable Trusts: State economic growth uneven since Great Recession began
By Barb Rosewicz, Ruth Mantell and Joe Fleming Pew Charitable Trusts Since the Great Recession hit the U.S. a decade…
Teachers are finally saying enough to the pay penalty; concerned too about funding for schools
By Sylvia Allegretto Economic Policy Institute Following West Virginia’s lead, teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are walking out and…
Pew Trusts: Free tuition spreading from cities to states; Work Ready KY targets specific interests
By Marsha Mercer Pew Charitable Trusts To churn out more workers with marketable skills, an increasing number of states are…
Pew Trusts: Some astonishing statistics that led to informed focus on today’s toughest challenges
Pew Charitable Trusts takes on some of today’s toughest issues, by applying a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public police,…