Pegasus Institute

The coronavirus has catapulted the number of unemployment claims in the United States to the highest numbers in recorded history. Unfortunately, Kentucky is no exception. The most recent data available indicates that for the week of April 18, 2024 there were 103,548 ne...

As legislators wrapped up the 2020 session this week, they passed multiple new taxes on vapor products in the final revenue package. Pegasus Institute has consistently opposed taxes on vape products for the wide ranging negative effects of any tax increase on these pro...

It does not appear that the Beshear Administration is following the White House’s guidelines for reopening the economy, despite indicating that they would be when the plan was announced on April 16th and repeatedly making reference to the guidelines since. On April 27t...

New data shows that Kentucky's hospitalizations related to COVID-19 have slowed considerably this week, with daily new admissions going down by more than 75% over the last seven days. 

As of April 24th, the state has 303 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19, with 164 i...

This January, we debuted our District Data Dashboard. The Dashboard tracks six county-level data points that we feel must be improved for Kentucky to move forward. Five of those data points we tracked before. This year, we added a sixth – full-time, local law enforceme...

Comparisons to Tennessee are commonplace in Kentucky and the state government response to the coronavirus has been no different. In the first weeks of economic shutdowns, some outlets compared the total number of cases in Tennessee to the number in Kentucky, criticizin...

Comparisons to Tennessee are commonplace in Kentucky and the state government response to the coronavirus has been no different. In the first weeks of economic shutdowns, some outlets compared the total number of cases in Tennessee to the number in Kentucky, criticizin...

On the Coronavirus Tracker, Real Clear Politics provides national and global COVID-19 data for these variables: Deaths, Deaths per 1 million of the population, Tests, Confirmed Cases, Confirmed Case Fatality Rate, Confirmed Cases per 1 million of the population and Sea...

After an unprecedented four weeks, three of which have set all time records for the number of Kentuckians filing for unemployment, the state’s unemployment insurance trust is projected to be approximately a month away from running out of money. 

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While no one knows exactly how COVID-19 will impact Kentucky’s economy, one thing is certain: the longer the economy is shutdown, the bigger the hole we will find ourselves in once we get to the other side. Like most states, Kentucky’s coffers receive most of their rev...