There are several movies I will watch every time they are aired on one of my generally useless 600 cable channels. They all have the same thing in common – a compelling character portrayal which keeps you riveted and mesmerised…
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Despite Middle TN Boom, Most TN Children Worse Off
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…
Read MoreHow Will Collapse of ObamaCare Affect Tennesseans?
UnitedHealth, the nation’s biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year. CEO Stephen Hemsley said Tuesday that the company…
Read MoreHalf of All Americans Pay No Income Taxes
Many Americans don’t have to worry about giving Uncle Sam part of their hard-earned cash for their income taxes this year. An estimated 45.3% of American households — roughly 77.5 million — will pay no federal individual income tax, according…
Read MoreTN Grows At Twice the National Average
Unemployment in Tennessee dropped to the lowest level in nearly nine years last month as employers across the Volunteer State added jobs at twice the national pace over the past year. The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said…
Read MoreWidespread Impending Pension Failures Will Impact Tennesseans
The US public pension system has developed a $3.4tn funding hole that will pile pressure on cities and states to cut spending or raise taxes to avoid Detroit-style bankruptcies. According to academic research shared exclusively with FTfm, the collective funding…
Read MoreWhy Does the GOP Legislature Fear the Free Market?
The operator of a large chain of beer and liquor stores says an effort to cap new retail licenses is an effort to stamp out competition in Tennessee. The main focus of the bill that advanced out of the House…
Read MoreRetail Failures Finally Arrive in Middle TN
Thursday, Milwaukee based retail store Kohl’s announced it was closing 18 underperforming stores. The specific locations won’t be announced until the end of the March. There are two local Kohl’s locations– at 300 Spring Creek Drive, in Franklin and 1020…
Read MoreEconomy Slows as Recession Nears
The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in the last three months of 2015, new government data showed Friday, an indication of how tepid global growth is exposing new weaknesses in the nation’s long and sluggish recovery. Gross domestic product,…
Read More95 Million Adult Americans Not Working
The number of Americans not in the labor force last month totaled 94,103,000 — a slight improvement from the 94,446,000 not in the labor force in November–and the labor force participation rate increased a tenth of a point, with 62.6…
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