For all their divisions, Americans share one conviction: the economy comes first. But beyond general concern about “the economy,” affordability and inflation, it’s much less clear what specific ...

The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them ...

Rust Belt revival: Which Rust Belt cities will see population growth in 2024? Aerial photo of rust belt row homes in a large midwest city in the U.S. Dust off your casserole recipes; the Rust Belt isn ...

YINGKOU, China (AP) — From Thailand to Kenya, trains run on tracks from steel mills in China’s northeast, a rust-belt region that is trying to capitalize on a multibillion-dollar national initiative ...

When the domestic steel industry all but died in the 1970s, Pennsylvania, along with other steel-making states, took on the title “rust belt.” It aptly described the economic devastation brought about ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Accelerating the pace of his re-election campaign, President Bush hopped on a red, white and blue bus Monday and tried to pump up support in Rust Belt states hard hit by ...

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Vice President Harris is finding new support in the three Rust Belt states that helped deliver President Trump’s 2016 victory. On issues like the economy and immigration, the two are now essentially ...

Note to the national political press corps: Enough with the Rust Belt. The term’s implication of exhaustion and decay may have fit the Great Lakes and industrial Midwest in the 1970s and ‘80s. I ...