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.

CAMPBELL, Ohio — Sept. 17 marked 48 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and ...

Demographers have been fascinated for decades by job-hunters' steady migration out of the Rust Belt north into the southern Sun Belt. Now, LinkedIn data shows another popular trek with a climate twist ...

In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, this southern U.S. port city has attracted a new Airbus factory, seen its steel industry retool, and gained thousands of jobs building the Navy’s new ...

The Rust Belt gets a bad rap. It epitomizes the worst of globalization’s impact on American communities. But the region is not all abandoned steel mills and shuttered factories. It’s a vital ...

Rust Belt youth often want to stay near home but can't find jobs. The key may be in educational initiatives that help young people find and acquire the jobs that are already readily available. Job ...

With his announcement last week that he was lifting regulations on coal use, President Trump promised that he was bringing back good blue-collar jobs — an extension of his campaign promise that an ...

CAMPBELL, Ohio — Sept. 19 marked 47 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and ...