Children in Tennessee are worse off today than they were before the Great Recession of 2008, according to an analysis by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. As part of its annual Kids Count report, the foundation ranks the welfare of…
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TN Ranked 5th Most Dangerous State in the Country
Tennessee natives and transplants from elsewhere might agree that the Volunteer State seems to be one of the safest in the nation. But a new survey says otherwise, ranking Tennessee as the fifth most-dangerous state in America. WalletHub, a personal-finance…
Read MoreSevere Poverty and Homeless Children in Nashville
Blame it on the movies — on the rags-to-riches, dreamy stories seen on the silver screen. Screenwriters make it seem simple: Just catch a break or work hard enough and all your dreams could come true. But busting out of…
Read MoreNashville Gets Serious About Affordable Housing
Metro Nashville will have more money than ever this year in its Barnes Fund for affordable housing. And the jump — from about $1 million to more than $5 million — has officials reevaluating how the money can best be…
Read MoreLegal Help for Poor People in Need
Our Pledge of Allegiance ends with the words…”justice for all.” These are powerful words, and they are the foundation of who we are as a country. Yet, for the 1.2 million Tennesseans living in poverty, about 18 percent of our…
Read MoreNashville’s Native Refugee Crisis
Recently I lunched with a friend only a few miles from what I call Nashville’s “third world district,” albeit mainly composed of people born in the United States. It is one of the trendy spots, a major attraction for millennials,…
Read MoreMore than 100,000 Nashvillians Live in Poverty
The other side of Nashville was revealed in the nearly 100-page report issued by Metro Social Services this week, outlining the depth and breadth of poverty that has all-too-quietly accompanied the city’s boom years. At a presentation of the sixth…
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