With the KY House's tax proposal that would devastate $ for critical services while tax cuts are skewed heavily to the rich & with the Senate’s budget expected soon, it’s important to underscore the damaging impact of so many years of budget cuts & the need for reinvestment 1/ Here’s a look at higher ed funding in KY (a thread) #kyga22 2/

New version of HB 313 doesn’t go as far as banning charitable bail funds outright (the original version did). But by limiting how much bail they can pay & for which charges, it subjects people who can’t afford their own bail to rules that don’t apply to people with means #kyga22 Charitable bail funds are needed in Kentucky because in the current pretrial system, a person’s ability to await trial at home rather than in jail is largely and unfairly dependent on which county they live in and whether or not they are poor kypolicy.org/disparate-just…