In the center of Fort Wayne, Indiana, sits an abandoned General Electric Co. complex built more than a century ago, a space that once employed about 40 percent of the city’s workforce but now serves ...
The abandoned Packard auto assembly plant in Detroit in 207 before its demolition. Foreign competition's role in the loss of Rust Belt jobs has been overstated in the political debate over U.S.
As we journeyed through the Rust Belt, we passed abandoned factories, vacant blocks, and crumbling infrastructure. But after ...
The past decades have not been kind to all of America's cities, with some seeing huge population drops. Here are five that ...
No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker-freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All of the momentum across the country in the last two ...
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 ...
Those who live and work there say manufacturing and a clean environment can -- and must -- coexist to help keep the Rust Belt economy alive. "It's a false choice to say it's one or the other," said ...
President Donald Trump’s signature trade policy is threatening to backfire by upending other top priorities: the revival of U.S. manufacturing and the American Rust Belt. In Illinois, Trump’s tariffs ...
They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse. The United States can be divided and subdivided into countless regions, each sharing a unique set of ...
There’s a pining for the glory days of manufacturing jobs among some Americans. But the great philosopher Billy Joel sang, “the good ole days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
Foreign competition's role in the loss of Rust Belt jobs has been overstated in the political debate over U.S. manufacturing, according to Middlebury College professor Gary Winslett, who instead ...