Updated State Revenue Estimate

Dr. Albert DePrince's presentation to the Tennessee State Funding Board (March 24, 2010)

- http://frank.mtsu.edu/~deprince/funding-board-presenation-deprince-03152010.pdf

Tennessee's Unemployment Rate Won't Get Much Relief from Jobs Bill

From the Tennessean, March 19: "A jobs package signed into law on Thursday is not expected to create enough jobs to improve Tennessee's persistently high unemployment rate. 'It will have almost zero impact,' said David Penn, associate professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University and director of the Business and Economic Research Center." (full story)

Midstate Economic Indicators

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/msei/spr10/text.html -

The midstate economy struggled again during the fourth quarter, with single-family home construction and sales tax collections the only significant sources of improvement.... (more)

Building Permits

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~berc/subdata/bpwebR2.xls -
Tennessee, Nashville MSA, and available midstate county data