VIDEO: Dark days in Dayton, Ohio
VIDEO: Real estate foreclosures in Greenwich, CT
VIDEO: Keeping the faith in West Virginia
VIDEO: Quakertown mailman speaks his mind
VIDEO: College Debt 101
VIDEO: On the Farm
VIDEO: The high cost of health care
VIDEO: Cutting back in Quakertown, Pa.
VIDEO: Expert: "Most Traumatic Market in 60 Years"
VIDEO: Lawyer Suing Bear Stearns Sums up Collapse
VIDEO: Stock market's worst day
VIDEO: In Greenwich, fewer shoppers at Splurge
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
In addition to reporting on how policymakers in Washington responded to the meltdown on Wall Street, McClatchy and the American News Project teamed up to produce a series of multimedia reports on how the economic crisis is affecting Americans and their families.
The team started in Greenwich, Conn., Wall Street’s premier bedroom community, then visited the epicenter of the quake on Wall Street itself. They journeyed through New Jersey's cities and on to ailing industrial centers, college campuses, state capitals and farm towns in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
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Dayton was bleeding jobs before financial crisis hit
When the job center in Dayton, Ohio, first opened its doors in 1997, the toughest challenge facing he staff was finding enough people to fill the thousands of new positions that were opening up in the area. But Dayton's manic job activity of the '90s has since given way to a panic that's changed the focus of the job center and the fortunes of the entire region. » read more
- · In pricey Greenwich, Conn., signs of a troubled economy
- · Economists may not call it recession, but job stats say it is
- · Economic crisis hurting students' ability to pay for college
- · Notes From the Road: Politics and the economy in Ohio
- · Notes from the Road: Trouble in Quakertown
- · Couple finds future dim as costs rise, home value falls
- · Notes from the road: How we are all connected
- · Notes from the Road: From Wall Street to Quakertown, Pa.
- · For legions of lawyers, bad markets are good business
