An exhaustive new survey from the Center for Working-Class Politics and its partners finds that strong economic populism resonates across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and that ...

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 ...

For all their divisions, Americans share one conviction: the economy comes first. But beyond general concern about “the economy,” affordability and inflation, it’s much less clear what specific ...

When the domestic steel industry all but died in the 1970s, Pennsylvania, along with other steel-making states, took on the title “rust belt.” It aptly described the economic devastation brought about ...

Democrats know they have a problem with working-class voters but don’t agree on the cause. Commentators chalk Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss to high prices, an unusually short campaign cycle, or voter ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Accelerating the pace of his re-election campaign, President Bush hopped on a red, white and blue bus Monday and tried to pump up support in Rust Belt states hard hit by ...

CLYDE, Ohio — President Donald Trump’s trade adviser spent the last two days walking factory floors along the edges of Lake Erie with an upbeat economic message: Manufacturing is on its way back. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...