Last week, MetroTrends bloggers delivered facts – some surprising – about challenges facing metros today:

• Margaret Simms suggests that the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) should give more help to places within states where the need is greatest.

• Bob Lerman questions the new “supplemental” poverty measure – first arguing that it oversimplifies a complex problem and, second, that it mistakenly allows the poverty threshold to rise with living standards.

• Juan Pedroza debunks the myth that immigrants are leaving states that passed punitive immigration laws.

• Margery Turner explores which metros are good places for the “99 percent” to call home.