While Tennessee's population, jobs and economic output have risen quickly in the past decade, it's still hard for many residents to make ends meet and find attainable housing, the report from nonprofit Think Tennessee said.
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Major costs including housing, transportation, child care, health care and food since 2020 are still rising faster than wages for most Tennesseans
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For research and development, Tennessee is more reliant on government and nonprofit money than the U.S. as a whole, the report said. While nationally, 6.8% of R&D funding comes from nonprofits and 7.8% from the government sector, it's 32.2% and 13.5%, respectively, in Tennessee
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Those dollars are being scaled back
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The median price to buy a home has more than doubled since 2014 in six of Tennessee's counties
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Costs for renters are also up by over 50% statewide

Whatta ya gonna do? It certainly is hard to tell if Gov. Bill cares about the little guy. We pretty much know the U.S. president doesn't, but some how he gets the little guy's votes.