Tennessee's elections chief, Secretary of State Tre Hargett, did not respond to a request for comment about a reform plan proposed by the advocacy group Americans for Citizen Voting (ACV) to bar all noncitizens from voting in any Tennessee election.
Tennessee last year recorded a homicide rate of 9.6 per 100,000 residents, compared to the U.S. rate of 6.5 per 100,000 and the state’s 5.6 rate a decade earlier, according to newly released FBI crime data.
The total amount of federal public education stimulus funds that Tennessee received from Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic is $3.86 billion, according to a tally from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Under Democrat Joe Biden’s federal tax plan, the top marginal tax rate in Tennessee could hit 49.34 percent, according to a new analysis by the Tax Foundation.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee received a grade of “D” from the Washington-based CATO Institute for his tax and spending policies since 2018, according to a ranking of governors that comes out every two years.
Tennessee will lose $311.8 million in total state and local tax revenue from the hotel industry due to COVID-19, according to an Oxford Economics estimate released by the American Hotels and Lodging Association.