2011
“The real fixers; they’re your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues. From keeping kids in school to rebuilding devastated cities, wrote to accompany profiles of “everyday Americans”—a teacher, lawyer and child psychiatrist, among others. “No community is beyond hope,” said one small-town mayor. According to a June Gallup poll, public confidence in 16 societal areas remains low after last year’s significant declines, including public schools in which only 26 percent had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence.