If ever we have needed a bit of good news, it is now.
And we have it, thankfully.
The share of Chattanoogans living in poverty fell last year to the lowest level in a decade as the improving economy boosted employment to the record highs, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
But we still have far to go.
Even with faster job growth and eight years of sustained economic growth, Chattanooga’s poverty rate still was higher last year than it was before the Great Recession, and it remained – along with most of the South – above the U.S. average.