Memphis

Energy poverty has become so severe in the Southeast that many households pay 600 percent more of their annual income on energy than the national average. In Memphis, the community is banding together to fight back.

• By DeAndrea Salvador

Nearly a century ago, during the Great Migration, less-educated individuals were the ones who left home in search of better lives. The opposite is true today, with the educated more mobile than ever before, leaving some places in a spiral of decline.

• By Jim Russell

A local historian certainly doesn't think so.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon