Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

COMMENTARY

Child care — the ‘workforce behind the workforce’ — is in crisis in Kentucky

BY: - March 22, 2023

Kentucky lawmakers, concerned that the state has half the workers it needs, cut unemployment benefits to force those who lose jobs to get back to work quicker and set up a program to get ex-inmates directly from prisons into jobs. But a direct, long-overdue way to beef up the workforce would be to provide affordable […]