(The Center Square) – Tennessee now has nine counties that are considered distressed, up one from a year ago and now including Haywood County, the home of Ford’s Blue Oval City project. A distressed county is one among the 10% most economically distressed in the nation, as determined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. This year, Clay dropped off the list while Haywood and Grundy were added to the list. The ARC factors in a three-year rate of unemployment rate, per capita market income and poverty rate. Last year, Gov. Bill Lee’s staff announced the state’s drop to eight distressed countie…