Redfin Real Estate reports that home affordability has declined, with only 35% of homes accessible to average buyers, ...

T he Rust Belt, linguistically speaking, is one of America’s newest regions.The name was largely popularized in 1984 by, of all people, Walter Mondale.At a campaign stop during the presidential ...

The net result is that Trumponomics will actually impede the critical revitalization efforts that are needed in the Rust Belt ...

The Rust Belt and COVID-19 . The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Rust Belt hard. White-collar workers throughout the country were able to work from home but this wasn't possible for most blue-collar ...

Rust Belt Brewing Co., for instance, opened a few years ago in an old train station in Youngstown, Ohio. The founders note the company "was born from the ruins of the U.S. steel industry in the ...

The Rust Belt states that delivered the presidency to Trump—Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan—were extremely close. On one hand this means that any number of factors can be said to be a ...

In the 2022 governor races in the three key Rust Belt states, the Democrats maintained or exceeded Biden’s recovery with those working-class Whites, exit polls found.

Rust Belt or no, Ness said people who look at the region’s economy from afar often take on a simplistic view. “What really strikes me about the use of the Rust Belt metaphor is it’s so ...

For Democrats, the Sun Belt imperative is growing more urgent. While most in the party are preoccupied with winning back the three Rust Belt states that tipped the 2016 election to Donald Trump ...