Welcome to Kentucky Family Policy
This blog is dedicated to examining issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and providing a nonpartisan, family perspective on public policy making. We hope to provide a forum for Kentuckians to review and discuss current legislative actions and the issues such actions are attempting to address. The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Kentucky, its affiliates, or its representatives.
What the authors of this blog will contribute:
1) Summarize current state, national, and international research related to topics relevant to current legilative actions.
2) Describe Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programs and activities currently addressing issues related to legilative actions in the various counties.
3) Provide expert commentaries via podcasts and videocasts on issues relevant to current legilative actions.
Please see "Priority Bills" section on the right for a short list of the most current legislative actions relevant to the family focus of this blog
Families are experiencing financial crisis due to increased cost of living, job loss or poor choices. To meet this need the Mason County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent provided a series of classes to address the high use of check cashing, payday loans, finance companies, rent to own and bankruptcies. Making Your Money Work and Small Steps to Health and Wealth materials were taught at work sites and in public facilities. As a result of the classes 100% of the participants reported the cut back on spending, were saving money for emergencies and setting goals for the use of their money. Comments include: "This class made me much more aware of my spending habits; it saved me time and money."
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Mason county, please click the link.
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