Rust BeltcompetitionproductivityunionizationmonopolySome regions of the United States fared much worse than others since the end of WWII. In this paper we document that those regions faring worst in terms of wage and employment growth from 1950-2000 tended to be those in which workers earned the ...
The media, however, repeated and reported the notion as “Rust Belt,” and the phrase stuck as a good description of the declining industrial heartland, especially the steel-and automobile-producing regions in the Northeast and Midwest. The phrase became synonymous with industrial decline in the ...
Where is the Rust Belt? The Rust Belt cities are municipalities that are mostly located in the Midwest, partially in the Northeast, and a few towns are located in the Central United States. Many of the regions bordering Lake Erie and Lake Michigan are considered a part of the Rust Belt. ...
The 'rust belt' is a name given to a section of the United States that once was the center for the steel industry. When the industry floundered in the 1970s, many companies folded, leaving behind high unemployment, poverty, and derelict mills....
The term Rust Belt is synonymous with regions facing industrial decline and abandoned factories that are rusted from exposure to the elements. The region was home to thousands of blue-collar jobs in coal plants, steel and automotive production, and the weapons industry. ...
"It is widely acknowledged that the regions highlighted in this report have seen decades of persistent poverty," the report states. "What is not as well known is that the need is not uniform. In many places, the families next door to particularly struggling scho...
Some regions of the "Rust Belt" (the industrial Midwest and Northeast) descended into virtual depression conditions as steel mills and other industries closed. WikiMatrix New types of R&D-intensive nontraditional manufacturing have emerged recently in Rust Belt, such as biotechnology, the polymer ind...
These factories started being abandoned in the 1970s as American workers lost their manufacturing jobs when they were sent to other regions in the world.What is the Rust Belt? The Rust Belt is an informal definition of a region including parts of the Midwest and Northeast which used to be ...
community-wide responses to second-generation extraction projects in a place created in the image of a specific industry, we must see enthusiasm for new mining jobs within the broader, historical context of what it means for residents of certain, formerly resource-dependent regions to be at home...
The WE Global Network is a regional network of immigrant economic development organizations working in cities and regions across the Midwest. The Network is designed to strengthen the work, maximize the impact, and sustain the efforts of individual local initiatives across the region that welcome, re...