Forward Kentucky: KCEP: General Assembly should strengthen recovery by approving much-needed relief
Berry Craig
By JASON BAILEY
Executive Director, Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
The 2021 Kentucky General Assembly will reconvene in early February, and the remaining piece of essential business is agreement on a new state budget. The legislature faces a choice: deploy extra resources to build a bridge to the other side of this crisis, or pursue austerity and leave us facing a slower and more treacherous recovery.