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Jul 21, 2020
1 min

Don’t Defund The Police; Fund And Defend Them

By Josh Crawford Despite the media’s constant attention to the “defund the police” campaign, the movement remains extremely unpopular. A...

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Podcast: Amid Calls to 'Defund Police', Record Breaking Violence Plagues America's Cities

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Jul 20, 2020
1 min

Podcast: Amid Calls to 'Defund Police', Record Breaking Violence Plagues America's Cities

For many years, America's largest cities saw decreasing crime rates. Places that once suffered from thousands of homicides, like New York...

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Kentucky Started a National Movement to Treat Female Prisoners Better, but More Work is Needed

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Jul 16, 2020
3 min

Kentucky Started a National Movement to Treat Female Prisoners Better, but More Work is Needed

By Courtney Spencer On May 14th of this year South Carolina was the 43rd state to pass a ban on shackling of pregnant women in prison...

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Podcast: Louisville on Pace for Most Violent Summer and Year Ever

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Jul 15, 2020
2 min

Podcast: Louisville on Pace for Most Violent Summer and Year Ever

Across the country, a number of cities, especially Louisville, are dealing with some of their most violent months in history. As of July...

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Kentucky State Budget Grew 12 Times More Than Population Growth From 2000 to 2018

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Jul 13, 2020
2 min

Kentucky State Budget Grew 12 Times More Than Population Growth From 2000 to 2018

By Austin Dillon New data compiled by Americans for Tax Reform shows drastic growth in Kentucky’s state budget in the past eighteen...

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Nearly Half of Kentucky’s Workforce Has Filed for Unemployment

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Jun 24, 2020
2 min

Nearly Half of Kentucky’s Workforce Has Filed for Unemployment

Even as states begin to loosen restrictions, KY is 2nd in the nation for the percentage of the labor force that has filed for unemployment.

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The remarkable folly of ‘defund the police’

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Jun 16, 2020
1 min

The remarkable folly of ‘defund the police’

On September 9, 1919, after an overwhelming vote by officers in favor of striking the day before, nearly 80% of the Boston Police...

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NEW REPORT: Declaring an Emergency: Cross-State Comparisons and Recommendations for Reform

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Jun 10, 2020
1 min

NEW REPORT: Declaring an Emergency: Cross-State Comparisons and Recommendations for Reform

The American system of government is a calculated structure of limited and separate governmental powers. In times of emergency, however,...

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Private Industry, Not Government, is the Key to Solving Covid-19

Jordan Harris

May 28, 2020
3 min

Private Industry, Not Government, is the Key to Solving Covid-19

There have been ample callbacks throughout the coronavirus pandemic to the Greatest Generation. Though working from home is hardly...

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Stay-at-Home Order May Have Increased Domestic Violence in Louisville

Austin Dillon

May 19, 2020
3 min

Stay-at-Home Order May Have Increased Domestic Violence in Louisville

As Kentucky begins its gradual reopening from the COVID-19 shutdown, many of the consequences of sheltering in place become more...

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Tennessee Continues to Test nearly 2x as Many Residents per Capita as Kentucky, Still has Fewer Deat

Erinn Broadus and Dasha Kolyaskina

May 15, 2020
3 min

Tennessee Continues to Test nearly 2x as Many Residents per Capita as Kentucky, Still has Fewer Deat

Three weeks ago, Tennessee seemed to be weathering COVID-19 better than Kentucky – with greater numbers of tests administered and fewer...

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Policies for a Coronavirus Shut-down Recovery

Josh Crawford

May 11, 2020
4 min

Policies for a Coronavirus Shut-down Recovery

As states begin to reopen and policymakers begin to shift their focus from solely fighting COVID-19 to also fighting the economic and...

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As COVID-19 Lockdowns Persist, So Does Deadly Violence

Josh Crawford

May 1, 2020
3 min

As COVID-19 Lockdowns Persist, So Does Deadly Violence

As we approach the end of the second month of the Great Pause, a clearer picture has emerged of violent crime during this period....

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There is Very Little Consistency or Apparent Coordination Between 7 State Reopen Pact ; Here's W

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May 1, 2020
4 min

There is Very Little Consistency or Apparent Coordination Between 7 State Reopen Pact ; Here's W

Despite being a southern state in every way imaginable, with a culture completely consistent with that of the Upper South, a shared...

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Unemployment Relief May Be Hard to Come by for Some Kentuckians

Erinn Broadus

Apr 30, 2020
3 min

Unemployment Relief May Be Hard to Come by for Some Kentuckians

The coronavirus has catapulted the number of unemployment claims in the United States to the highest numbers in recorded history....

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Kentucky’s New Vape Taxes are some of the Highest in the Country

Jared Crawford

Apr 29, 2020
3 min

Kentucky’s New Vape Taxes are some of the Highest in the Country

As legislators wrapped up the 2020 session this week, they passed multiple new taxes on vapor products in the final revenue package....

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Kentucky Meets Most of the Criteria of White House Phase One for Reopening but No Longer Appears to

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Apr 28, 2020
2 min

Kentucky Meets Most of the Criteria of White House Phase One for Reopening but No Longer Appears to

It does not appear that the Beshear Administration is following the White House’s guidelines for reopening the economy, despite...

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COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Kentucky Have Slowed Considerably Over the Last Week

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Apr 25, 2020
2 min

COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Kentucky Have Slowed Considerably Over the Last Week

New data shows that Kentucky's hospitalizations related to COVID-19 have slowed considerably this week, with daily new admissions going...

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Josh Crawford

Apr 23, 2020
2 min

NEW REPORT: The Case for COPS 3.0

This January, we debuted our District Data Dashboard. The Dashboard tracks six county-level data points that we feel must be improved for...

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Kentucky Coronavirus Hospitalizations per capita More than 2x Higher than Tennessee

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Apr 23, 2020
2 min

Kentucky Coronavirus Hospitalizations per capita More than 2x Higher than Tennessee

Comparisons to Tennessee are commonplace in Kentucky and the state government response to the coronavirus has been no different. In the...

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