Beshear seeks $500M to help families

Beshear seeks $500M to help families

FRANKFORT — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the GOP-controlled state legislature for $500 million in one-time spending to ease families’ “rising cost pressures.” Beshear’s proposed budget also includes start-up funding for his educational priority of “Pre-K for All”…

KY governor’s budget plan: Relieve affordability pressures, ‘Pre-K for All,’ health care

FRANKFORT — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the GOP-controlled state legislature for $500 million in one-time spending to ease families’ “rising cost pressures.” Beshear’s proposed budget also includes start-up funding for his educational priority of “Pre-K for All”…

KY governor’s budget plan: Relieve affordability pressures, 'Pre-K for All,' health care • Kentucky Lantern

In Letcher County, Gov. Andy Beshear announces plans for a housing development for flood victims, The Cottages at Thompson Branch in Marlowe. (Photo provided by governor's office)FRANKFORT — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the GOP-controlled state legislature for $500 million in one-time spending to ease families’ “rising cost pressures.” Beshear’s proposed budget also includes start-up funding for his educational priority of “Pr…

Governor Proposes Tight Budget for Ongoing Services, Using Reserve Funds to Help Household Affordability Needs - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

Governor Beshear’s budget proposes using nearly $1 billion from the state’s $3.7 billion Budget Reserve Trust Fund (BRTF) to fill gaps in household affordability needs, address some of the fallout of H. R. 1, and for other infrastructure and education projects. The remainder of the budget contains a combination of small increases, frozen funding levels and reductions to a variety of ongoing services and programs. Given the lack of revenues due p…

In final budget address, Beshear bets on modest pre-K start, teacher raises

The funding request from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear for a pre-K for all initiative looks different from what he pitched two years ago. And this year’s ask could be seen as a more politically savvy move as spend-conscious Republicans are…