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State spending growth in 3 areas
takes money from education The state’s budget is leaking tax dollars in three major areas — taking millions away from Kentucky's schools. State spending on corrections, Medicaid and public employee health benefits is growing at an alarming rate, and we simply can’t afford to let this continue. We need to invest more in our young people — and our future — but these three big “leaks” are taking critical funds away from public education.
 “Even though Kentucky’s policymakers have not consciously decided to make such a change, our priorities have clearly shifted,” says Chamber President and CEO Dave Adkisson. “We are now spending an increasing amount of money on what happens when you fall short on education attainment – more people in jails and more people on Medicaid” in addition to the escalating costs of public employee health care and retirement benefits. |
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