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Winners Gallery | Best Photo Column | Award of Excellence
First Place
April Saul Philadelphia Inquirer
"Kids, Guns and a Deadly Toll"
Second Place
Brian Peterson Star Tribune
"Witness"
Third Place
Steve Jessmore The Flint Journal
"Sense of Community"
Award of Excellence
Lisa DeJong The Flint Journal
"Fading Middle Class"
Award of Excellence
Thomas E. Franklin The Record
"Picture This"
Award of Excellence
The Gainesville Sun
"Sense of Place"
Award of Excellence
Sol Neelman The Oregonian
"Sidelines"
  Award of Excellence
Lisa DeJong The Flint Journal
"Fading Middle Class" With the waning importance of unions and the closing of factories due to exportation of jobs overseas to non-union facilities, the middle class is disappearing in Flint, Michigan. Corporate America is walking away from health care and pension promises that have helped build the backbone of this country, the middle class. The middle class was essentially born in Flint when the union was formed after the historic Sit-Down Strike of 1936. Flint is ground zero, It started here, will we see it end here? Since the late 1960s, nearly 75,000 residents have fled Flint. With the chronic threats of factory closings and major lay-offs from the Delphi Corp and General Motors this year, the middle class watches as Flint marches towards economic Armageddon. This project asks middle-class union members in Flint to comment on their own extinction.

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