Kentucky Youth Advocates released the 2025 Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data Dashboard today, featuring county-level data on child health, education, economic security and family measures across the ...

“Rates of poverty for Black kids in Kentucky continue to be at an unacceptable disproportionate rate in every corner of the state,” Brooks said. About 31% of Black children and 23% of Latinx children ...

Jefferson County Public School students transfer buses at the Nichols Bus Compound on Friday, August 18, 2023. JCPS had to rethink their strategy after the first day of school saw students arriving ...

Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of Kentuckians living in poverty exceeds the national rate and the state is the nation’s 46th poorest. The American Community ...

There's a mix of good and concerning numbers in Kentucky’s Kids Count report, a state-level, county-by-county assessment of child wellbeing across Kentucky based on the national report by the Annie E.

Twenty-one percent of Kentucky children live in poverty, and the state ranks 40th in the nation for child well-being. Louisville has the fifth highest percentage of residents living in poverty ...

Kentucky continues to have higher rates of children in poverty, teen pregnancies, and child and teen deaths than the national average, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday. The state ...

Many states reaped benefits from federal coronavirus pandemic aid, but that well is now drying up. Dustin Pugel, policy director at the left-leaning Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, said with ...

The Courier Journal asked organizations what key issues were on their minds leading up to the Nov. 7 election where Kentucky will choose between Daniel Cameron and Gov. Andy Beshear for governor.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new survey highlights the challenges children face across Kentucky, and one of the biggest increases is in child firearm deaths. The 2022 Kentucky Kids Count County Data ...

Long before flooding creeks and rivers swept away their homes, the residents of eastern Kentucky knew what it meant to live a life of hardship. The counties hit hardest last week are among the poorest ...