Report Outlines Trends and Issues
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CONTACT: Michael T. Childress
FRANKFORT, KY (January 10, 2003) — The Kentucky Long-Term
Policy Research Center today released its fifth biennial report on trends
influencing the future of the Commonwealth. The Road Ahead: Uncertainty and
Opportunity in a Changed World examines a wide spectrum of issues, including
how terrorism, and the war against it, might shape our lives in Kentucky.
As envisioned by the Kentucky General Assembly, the 136-page report offers
citizens and policymakers alike a body of information about opportunities,
problems, and uncertainties on the horizon that can be used, in the words of
2002 Center Board Chair Dr. Betty Griffin, “to think and act strategically
about Kentucky’s future, which is especially important given the current
budget shortfalls and the threat of terrorism.”
The report’s 13 chapters, written by nine different authors from six
different agencies or organizations, examine trends relating to homeland
security, civic engagement, the economy, education, the environment, land use,
population growth, technology use, health care, and public finance.
Citizens may obtain a free copy of the report from the Kentucky Long-Term
Policy Research Center. The report is available online. To request a copy,
contact the Center by mail at 111 St. James Court, Frankfort, KY 40601; by
phone at 502-564-2851 or 800-853-2851, extension 19; by fax at 502-564-1412 or
800-383-1412; or by e-mail at pubs@kltprc.net. |