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 ...

Something real is happening in America's industrial heartland. Cities once written off as cautionary tales of decline are now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Something remarkable is happening across a stretch of American geography that most people had quietly written off. The cities ...

Explore the story of the Rust Belt, the hub of the American Industrial Revolution and innovation. Explore the story of the Rust Belt, running through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and the ...

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 ...

“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 ...