Nashville’s Metro Council agrees to pay Amazon $500 per job in Nashville per year for seven years. But many councilmembers call for an overhaul of the entire corporate tax abatement process.
The commemoration is meant to draw attention to transit as a civil rights issue and an important element of a climate-safe future.
Once again, in Memphis, we see that sometimes the job of a board of directors is to maintain integrity, even in the face of offers of philanthropic largesse. In this case, community members and teachers have come together to urge the board to reject a philanthropic offer to pay for its new superintendent search.
If a state gave grants to nonprofits but kept organization names, award amounts, and fund uses secret, it would be a scandal. But with corporations that receive state tax credits, this is business as usual. Some folks in Tennessee’s legislature, however, want this to change.
A controversial Chattanooga school advocacy nonprofit takes the membership plunge.
In Nashville, the $102 million offered Amazon to locate a 5,000-person employee facility in the city is proving less than universally popular, with local unions and council members clamoring for the city, which has committed $15 million of that amount, to care for its own workers first.
Most of us understand how critical peer networks are in substance abuse recovery, but they are also an important and largely unacknowledged element of community care for people with mental illness.
The state of Tennessee has spent five years encouraging its population to lead healthier lives without much improvement in overall outcomes. What’s wrong with this picture?
Federal data indicate that one in five school children need mental health services. As this article from Tennessee demonstrates, however, many schools fall short of providing the support their students need. Referrals to outside nonprofits help, but do not fully make up for the shortfall.
Nashville is booming, but public schools face possible budget cuts. What happened? Turns out that corporate tax abatements are not cost-free.
