Driving through the streets of Saginaw, Michigan, with Hurley Coleman III, the raw tension between what was and what could be in his community runs deeper than what can be seen through the passenger ...
To say that 2025 has been eventful is an understatement. The year began with tariff announcements that, though anticipated, ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — President Donald Trump once promised that coal and steel would be the beating heart of a revived U.S. economy — a nostalgic vision that helped carry him to victory three years ago in ...
Union membership among manufacturing workers fell .4 percentage points from 2018 to 2019, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s twice as high as the average loss ...
Analysis: Trump's 2020 Rust Belt pitch is threatened by the possibility of a manufacturing recession
President Donald Trump has been boasting about creating manufacturing jobs in states key to his re-election, but an emerging recession in the sector threatens to reverse that trend and imperil his ...
‘A big missing part of the story’ — Rust Belt vs. Sun Belt in the battle for U.S. manufacturing jobs
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.
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