U.S. Representative Republican Andy Ogles made a rare public appearance this weekend in Spring Hill.
How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ may strip resources for low-income students and those with disabilities
The Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will bring changes for Tennessee students from kindergarten to college.
Safety net advocates want Tennessee’s senators to vote no on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Local organizations are asking Tennessee’s U.S. Senators to vote against a proposal that would bring sweeping cuts to safety net programs.
In states that ban abortion, social safety net programs often fail families
Recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press has found that from the time a Tennessee woman gets pregnant, she faces greater obstacles to a healthy pregnancy, a healthy child and a financially stable family life than the average American mom.
Tennesseans’ support for gun reform and abortion access rises. So does their support for lawmakers opposing those measures.
Public support for Tennessee politicians has risen in recent months, according to a Vanderbilt poll out Friday. However, the report also found that support is higher for measures that the Republican-controlled statehouse opposes, including abortion access and gun reform.
Tennessee’s Title X family planning funding could change under a second Trump term
Tennessee’s rigid anti-abortion policies lost the state millions of dollars in family planning funding under the Biden Administration. Experts say it’s not easy to predict what the Trump Administration will do about it.
Tennessee is putting $80M into rural health workforce programming. Here’s how.
Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
TennCare had to start eligibility checks again. About 1 in 3 are losing coverage.
Since Congress called an end to several pandemic-relief policies last year, state Medicaid agencies like TennCare have been doing something that wasn’t allowed for years: dropping members who no longer qualify.
Study: Medicaid expansion could cover 150,000 more Tennesseans and save the state millions of dollars
A new study on Medicaid expansion argues that Tennessee could give 150,000 more residents health coverage and still end up saving money.
TennCare uses scare tactics and aggressive enforcement to root out fraud. With millions spent, the agency has little to show for it.
The state’s low-income health insurance program, TennCare, funds an outside unit dedicated to rooting out potential fraud. After millions of dollars spent each year, it has less and less to show for the effort aside from slapping Tennesseans with felonies unnecessarily.
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