Sen. Paul releases wide-ranging ad highlighting record in first part of Web series
06/02/2016 04:17 PM
UPDATED — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s re-election campaign is focusing on the junior senator’s record in Congress in a series of Web ads launched Thursday. The first ad, titled “Defend” as part of the series dubbed “Rand’s Record: Standing for Kentucky,” highlights his work against gun-control measures, bulk data collection by the National Security Agency and abortion and for criminal justice reform, among other issues. “The Bill of Rights protects us all, but only if we stand up for the entire Bill... Read more 
Agriculture Commissioner Quarles launches task force to help feed the hungry
06/02/2016 02:30 PM
SHELBYVILLE — Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles launched a statewide Kentucky Hunger Task Force initiative Thursday aimed to help combat hunger in Kentucky. Map the Meal Gap, an annual study of Feeding America, revealed that 17 percent of Kentucky’s population — or 1 in 6 — was food insecure in 2014, meaning they lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The Hunger Task Force is part of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s Hunger Initiative, a first-of-its-kind... Read more
The U.S. economy added just 38,000 jobs in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly report — far fewer than the 160,000 that economists had anticipated. NPR business editor Marilyn Geewax called the number “shockingly low.” The unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage points, the Bureau says, to 4.7 percent — but that can be attributed to people dropping out of the workforce, Marilyn says. The number of workers who would like to work full-time but can find only part-time work increased by nearly half a million, to 6.4 million, the BLS says. Economists had anticipated 160,000 new jobs last [...]
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This production is part of WFPL News’ year-long project The Next Louisville: Race, Ethnicity and Culture. What is Louisville’s most diverse neighborhood? In a city where most neighborhoods are either majority-white or majority-black, the stories of those places with a mix of races, ethnicities and cultures become even more poignant. They offer a window into daily life, but they also broaden our sense of what it means to be diverse. That word — diversity — is around a lot right now. You hear it in board rooms and on boards of education, from mayors and police chiefs and university presidents. What you don’t [...]
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While Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration is privately working on a plan to change Kentucky’s expanded Medicaid system, a coalition of advocacy group has created its own recommendations. Bevin has said his administration would apply for a federal 1115 waiver — a course of action that allows states to test out new ways to operate Medicaid. Although there hasn’t been any public input on the waiver process, a coalition called Kentucky Voices for Health has crafted its own suggestions designed to improve health and manage costs of the system. Rich Seckel, executive director of Kentucky Equal Justice Center, said the group’s report could help improve the Medicaid system. “What I found [...]
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