Transcript: Knoxville's Diverse Economy Buffers Recession

RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
10-05-2009
Knoxville's Diverse Economy Buffers Recession

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time 11:00-12:00 PM


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RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

Next, we go to Knoxville, Tennessee, a city that's not doing too badly in this recession. Unemployment is about two points lower than the state average, perhaps because Knoxville learned the hard way not to rely on any one single kind of business.

Matt Shafer Powell of member station WUOT takes a look back at Knoxville's industrial past.

MATT SHAFER POWELL: During the middle of the last century, Knoxville was a drab, polluted industrial town. One travel writer called it the ugliest city he'd ever seen in America. Each day, ...

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