News Source: The Courier-Journal
| about 1 month ago
Gov. Steve Beshear announced a three-year initiative Tuesday morning to improve pediatric dental health in Eastern Kentucky. The state has been awarded three federal grants totaling $1.6 million that it will match with state resources. The goal is...
News Source: The Daily Independent
| about 1 month ago
Even after cutting nearly $1 billion from the enacted state budget, revenues are likely to fall as much as $161 million short of that budget’s projections. That was the news out of a meeting of the Consensus Forecasting Group Tuesday – although...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
The recession will likely cause additional financial woes for state government, a panel of Kentucky economists predicted Monday. Those economists, serving on the state government's official financial forecasting group, said Kentucky's general fund...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| about 1 month ago
With state revenues still in a free fall, a group of independent economists Monday predicted a $160.9 million shortfall in the current fiscal year, which began in July. The decision came at a Monday meeting after the Consensus Forecasting Group heard...
News Source: The Courier-Journal
| about 1 month ago
The experts who predict state revenues for budgeting purposes said Monday that they expect another shortage. The Consensus Forecasting Group predicted that the state's General fund will take in $8.135 billion in the current fiscal year � $161...