WBBJ TV July 6, 2021 HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. — Big improvements are coming to Hardeman County. After more than a decade, Hardeman County has announced county-wide improvements have led the area to be removed from the list of counties considered economically distressed. “A distressed county is a county that is below the bottom 10 percent in the nation in economics,” said Hardeman County Mayor Jimmy Sain. Over the past 14 years, Hardeman County has worked to grow their employment and economic opportunities. “We’ve worked hard to keep our financials in a good situation, our taxes down, so we can recruit business and industry and also recruit families to our rural area,” Sain said.