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Business
| Looking to start a business
in a growing Tennessee community with little
racial diversity, below average per capita income,
where one in six persons lives below the poverty level
while 10 dozen city employees
drive government cars home and officials scheme to stop public
records of their actions from being released? Looking to be near a
hospital with millions in construction
cost overruns that has become a taxing district because administrators
can't raise enough through provided services? Looking for a county with
below
average expenditures for education? Do you like lap-dog daily newspapers
whose reporters eat pizza donated by incumbent politicians?
Welcome to
Cookeville, Tenn., home of the Phabulous Wee-Wees
University of Tennessee, Center for Literacy Studies |
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| Putnam County | Tennessee | |
| Population 1990: | 51,373 | 4,877,185 |
| Population change 1980-90: | 7.2% | 4.6% |
| Percent Urban 1990: | 47.3% | 60.4% |
| Percent Nonwhite: | 3.3% | 17.6% |
| High District: | $ 2,274.00 |
| Putnam County: | $ 880.00 |
| Low District: | $ 385.00 |
| State Average: | $ 1,124.00 |
Source: University of Tennessee, Center for Literacy Studies