General Assembly
KY's cut to child care assistance is steepest in nation
Citing lack of state funds, Kentucky is preparing to cut thousands of families off a program that subsidizes the cost of child care for working poor parents. Starting this spring, child care support will only be available to families with household income below $22,050. At that point, Kentucky will have the lowest threshold for child care assistance in the country.
Beshear Administration describes need for new state revenue
This post from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy does a great job capturing yesterday's grim testimony about Kentucky's financial crisis before a joint meeting of the House and Senate Appropriations committees.
Jefferson County Chapter Meeting
Everyone is welcome to attend our monthly chapter meetings. We'll be discussing Fair Housing issues in Louisville and getting an update on the General Assembly. Come out and learn more about KFTC and our work in Louisville.
Hazard meeting with State Senator Brandon Smith
Just days before traveling back to Frankfort for the two upcoming months of General Assembly, new Senate Majority Whip Brandon Smith met up with KFTC members at the Perry County Library. This was one of several at-home meetings KFTC members organized this past week to open up communication during this General Assembly as well as to build support for the Clean Energy Opportunity Act. Members from Perry County, Harlan County, and Letcher County met with Sen. Smith about this legislative priority as well as the Kentucky Voting Rights Amendment (HB 70) and other local issues.
Voting Rights Meeting and Action!
This weekend, we had a powerful statewide meeting in Louisville with allies to plan our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.
We had forty participants from a wide range of groups including Jobs with Justice, NAACP, the Kentucky Council of Churches, Stepping to a New Beat, and the UAW along with a lot of KFTCmembers. Many of the participants were former felons themselves.
We used a lot of the time to let people in the room have a chance to connect, root themselves in why they think restoring voting rights is important, and review the history of ourcampaign and the current landscape.
But after that, we focused a lot on actions to restore voting rights to former felons and we're sharing those out to the broader public here:
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