Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types ...

As presidential election results roll in, all eyes are on seven swing states, three of which are part of the "Rust Belt." The Rust Belt refers to a part of the country that was once a manufacturing ...

Rodney Lockwood joins “The Signal Sitdown” to unpack Detroit’s collapse and share his bold plan to revitalize a forgotten part of the city.

Rust Belt. Sun Belt. Bible Belt. Grain Belt. Barbecue Belt. Beltway. The United States it may be, but in reality, America is a patchwork of regions. And now these terms and others, which evolved from ...

Democratic leaders pinpointed a number of state legislatures in the Rust Belt as targets to shore up ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Five out of the six states viewed by the Democratic ...

CAMPBELL, Ohio — Sept. 17 marked 48 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and ...

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 ...

“Pittsburg is ugly,” said no one ever. In fact, USA Today once called it, “America’s most beautiful city.” My flight attendant sister corroborates that claim: “Seriously one of the most underrated ...

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 ...