2010 in Review

If 2008 was the year our economic foundation nearly disintegrated, and 2009 the year we took full stock of the damage, then 2010 was the year we began to build anew.

The reconstruction effort was centered in Washington, D.C., but what crystallized in the halls of Congress didn't necessarily originate nor end there. The remaking began with homeowners in Maine and Florida, unemployed autoworkers in Michigan and Ohio, families crushed under hospital bills in Iowa and California, minimum-wage earners in Montana and Oklahoma, and ordinary borrowers in Missouri and South Carolina. It spread north to New York, south to Georgia, outward to Illinois, and onward to Oregon, hitting every stop in between.