By some estimates, Tennessee is ranked last in the country for voter turnout. Ahead of the 2016 election, a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts showed that in the eight previous years, the state had some of the lowest rates in the country, hitting an all-time low in 2014 with […]
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Proposed Budget Cuts to Adult Education Set an Alarming Precedent
(Click to view the full map pictured above.) One unusually hot April evening in Nashville, I began my reading and writing course by asking my students to free write for 15 minutes. Yvonne Littlepage is one of my brightest math students. She is a petite, older African-American women who, since […]
Read MoreSwallowing Us Whole: New Regulations on Predatory Lending Felt in Appalachia
In the Borderlands of Appalachia With a population of 494 people, Cumberland Gap, Tennessee might be the smallest township I’ve visited. According to the American Community Survey, the poverty rate here is 48.2 percent. The 2010 census report contradicts this figure with statistics that show no families live in poverty. […]
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