Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky's economic numbers are a mixed bag in the 2024 American Community Survey released last week. (Getty Images) Poverty is ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky Youth Advocates released the 2025 Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data Dashboard today, featuring county-level data on child health, education, economic security and family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Youth ask questions during Children's Advocacy Day in Frankfort on March 4, 2026. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd) Fewer ...

Twenty-one percent of Kentucky children live in poverty, and the state ranks 40th in the nation for child well-being. Louisville has the fifth highest percentage of residents living in poverty ...

(LEX 18) — A recent report from a non-partisan, independent organization looked at the state of minimum wage in Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, never before had it been ...

This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump and the politics of eastern Kentucky. Find part one here. David Maynard and his wife Shea Maynard were born in Martin County, Kentucky. ...

Kentucky continues to have higher rates of children in poverty, teen pregnancies, and child and teen deaths than the national average, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday. The state ...

Poverty is down in Kentucky, new federal data shows, though the percent of Kentuckians living in poverty exceeds the national rate and the state is the nation’s 46th poorest. The American Community ...