TN has $250M set aside for mental health. Why hasn't it been spent?
Many may wonder why, especially as studies and surveys find that the state's children have increasingly been suffering from mental health issues.
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Many may wonder why, especially as studies and surveys find that the state's children have increasingly been suffering from mental health issues.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Black applicants to Tennessee’s criminal injuries compensation fund got disproportionately denied funding, according to new data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press. Laquita Hughes’s sister was one of the applicants denied in 2018. Their father was murdered and they sought help for funeral and burial costs. “It was a total of […]
Two years after Tennessee passed a law to make a one-time, $250 million investment in mental health services for school-age children, plans on how to spend earnings from the trust fund are still being made. Any mental health expenditures won't take place until the 2024-25 fiscal year.
Tennessee Department of the Treasury, Nashville, is searching for a third-party administrator for the state's $5.6 billion 401(k) plan and $791 million 457 plan. The department has issued an RFP due to the upcoming expiration of the contract of current administrator Empower Retirement, said…
Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System, Nashville, committed $150 million to Blackstone Green Private Credit Fund III. The $68.4 billion pension fund's investment committee approved the commitment to the private credit fund focused on renewable energy companies at its Aug. 25 meeting, said…