Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign in Donora, PA, touting the Rust Belt city as "the home of champions." Donora, PA, an economically distressed borough of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin voters lining up to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election, Oct. 25, 2022, in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty ...

Commentators in charge of explaining Donald Trump’s surprise victory seem to have settled on the idea that the white working class in the Rust Belt played a decisive role. In the New York Times, for ...

Step aside Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Sorry, but you’re just not cool anymore. These days, you need to have crumbling roads, triple-decker ...

Voices from the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubeck, Belt Publishing, 256 pages. They call the wide expanse from the Northeast to the Upper Midwest the Rust Belt. The region’s geographical lines, subject to ...

We've seen the fortunes rise for America's cities on the east and west coasts, and the cities of the Sun Belt continue their rapid acceleration in growth and prosperity. Where I live, in the capital ...

This piece originally appeared on Rust Wire. A city must know itself—its identity—so that it can attract people whose tastes align with what the city is really all about, minus the cookie-cutter banal ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “You don’t really think of Rust Belt cuisine as being vegan,” Meredith Pangrace said. “It’s an oxymoron.” Well, it’s no longer an oxymoron, thanks to “Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen,” a ...

We don't converse on cellphones the size of bricks anymore, wear slap bracelets or sport big hair. So why are we still using another relic from the 1980s -- the phrase "Rust Belt" -- to describe a ...