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Inflation rose last year at the fastest pace in 40 years, raising prices for food, housing and other consumer goods nearly twice as much as the wage gains paid to the typical worker.

Sponsored in part by the Political Economy Research Institute at Middle Tennessee State University, the first Dr. Harold A. Black Academic Conference took place at the historic Read House in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in early September. The conference showcased papers from 10 authors and five co-authors that directly examined, extended or built on Black’s scholarship, made possible by a PERI partnership with the Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tenness...

Former Tennessee governors Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam will be members of the Institute of American Civics, which will develop courses in major and minor programs.