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State budget leaders sit at a desk presenting details on the state's rainy day fund.

Kentucky’s ‘rainy day’ fund reaches new heights due to tax revenue surplus

BY: - August 2, 2023

FRANKFORT — Kentucky’s budget reserve trust fund, commonly known as the “rainy day” fund, now sits at more than $3.7 billion in large part due to record tax revenues brought in by the state during the last fiscal year.  State Budget Director John Hicks told state lawmakers at an interim committee meeting Wednesday the budget […]