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Rick Green
A segment of the state’s population often flies under the radar. They’re known as “The Working Poor,” often holding one or more jobs and still doing well to pay for the basics – food, housing, transportation. Producers Matt Shafer Powell and Leslie Snow of WUOT in Knoxville bring us their stories in the series, “Without A Net: Voices of the Working Poor.” Today, we meet Rick Green, a single man who spends what little spare time he has tending to the garden outside his North Knoxville mobile home.
The full series is here.
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