N THE MONTHS since he lost his job driving a delivery truck for a door company, Lebron Stinson
has absorbed a bitter geography lesson about this
riverfront city: The jobs are in one place, he is in
another, and the bus does not bridge the divide.
Stinson lives downtown, where many of the factories that once employed willing hands have been
converted into chic eateries. The majority of jobs
are out in the suburbs, in the strip malls, office
parks and chain restaurants that stretch eastward.
Most of this sprawl lies beyond reach of the public
BY PETER S. GOODMAN // PHOTOGRAPHS BY HOLLIS BENNETT
Stinson at
home in
South Side
Chattanooga,
an area far
flung from
most jobs he
is able to do.