2019 KIDS COUNT data now available

The 2019 version of the KIDS COUNT, The State of the Child in Tennessee report was recently released by the Tennessee Commission on Child and Youth. The KIDS COUNT resources include an outstanding collection of data and policy directions in a report outlining strategies to benefit children and families. It also includes a county-profile showing a ranking for each county in the state.

Rankings for each county in Tennessee are available in the county profiles provided by the Tennessee Commission on Child and Youth 2019 KIDS COUNT Report.

Applications showcase data about Tennessee veterans

Patriot Paths is a wonderful visualization of the lives of Revolutionary War soldiers using data obtained from pension records. The interactive maps show where individual Patriots resided at enlistment, as well as other places they lived both before and after the war.  The map was  launched in July by TSLA.

The State Data Center analyzed Census Bureau data highlighting the era in which each of the state’s 441,000 veterans served. The interactive, county-by-county maps show that in most cases Vietnam era veterans are the most prevalent, but there are a few interesting exceptions.