Letter from the Editor-in Chief
Nothing has dominated the news cycles of my college career more than the economy. Luckily, being in college affords many of us a sense of security, where economic woes may not enter the hallowed halls.

But now I'm graduating, and it is something I worry about often. It has taken just about all of my strength not to run out into the street screaming, "Fix it!" at any authority figure I can find before collapsiing into a sobbing pile of tears and applying to grad school.

The stories printed in this magazine should give us hope, however. These are stories of people fighting to stay afloat in tough times through their own enterprise, hard work and determination. Each story is a little piece of the greater narrative of these past four years as we have seen the economy shrink and fluctuate. They range from blue collar to white, from shoe repairmen to coupon collectors.

I would like to thank all of the members of the Mosaic staff who reported, editd and sold advertisemnts to make this magzine possible. I would also like to thank Professor John Slania, who oversaw the editorial content, for his hard work to educate the budding journalists at the School of Communication.

We now seem to be in a period of recovery, where things are again starting to look up for business in this country; but these stories provide us with a snapshot of a place and a time when things were not great, and provide a blueprint for future crises of confidence

Alex Rich
Editor-in-Chief