By News staff
During The Providence Journal's year-long Reinvent R.I. series, many readers wrote us saying that after a deep recession and three years of weak job growth, they want their leaders to take action -- now.

The Providence Journal / Steve Szydlowski
After another brutal economic year for Rhode Island, the state's three top political leaders talk about vision, taxes and other ideas for change.
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Our reporters asked leaders who represent institutions that can mobilize thousands of people what they had learned about the troubled economy in 2012, and what they are doing to fix it. Hear what they had to say.
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