The institutions that once provided the security Americans craved have been transformed before their eyes.
Dozens of companies that once provided billions of dollars in student loans have left the market.
So are the institutions that once provided structure to working-class life in America.
The coconut plantations that once provided work have long since shut down.
Below, along the river's west bank, is an old abandoned diversion structure that once provided water to Imperial Valley farmers.
Harworth has lost its shoe factory, its light-bulb factory and a colliery that once provided 1,100 jobs.
Some states that once provided free vaccines to all children, like North Dakota, have had to abandon that practice.
Many of the inner-city back-to-back houses that once provided an abundance of cheap lodgings were pulled down.
The distrust is evident even within the Steelworkers union, another institution that once provided a support system for workers.
In 1999, GM closed Buick City, a Flint assembly plant that once provided a living to 28,000 workers.
But the industry that once provided thousands of jobs is slowly disappearing, and the region's entrenched poverty has persisted.
