Obama’s vision of government still unfulfilled

(Darren Hauck / For The Washington Post)

The faltering of the president’s high-speed rail project underscores just how difficult and incomplete his effort has been to modernize U.S. infrastructure, schools and health-care systems to meet the demands of globalization and expand America’s middle class.

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