The small city of 54,000 in Los Angeles County is known for how its residents and officials worked in the 1980s to transform ...

Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are all considered part of the Rust Belt, the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network previously reported. Sometimes, parts of western New York, West Virginia ...

The poverty rate of the entire United States was 11.1% for 2023. The area was generally known as the country’s Factory, Steel, or Manufacturing Belt before it became known as the Rust Belt.

At AS USA, Maite combines her knowledge of political economy and personal finance to empower readers by providing answers to their most pressing questions. The Rust Belt refers to regions in ...

Rust Belt. Sun Belt. Bible Belt. Grain Belt. Barbecue Belt. Beltway. The United States it may be, but in reality, America is a patchwork of regions. And now these terms and others, which evolved ...

The traditional Rust Belt states, which ... the lack of manufacturing jobs and bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States, we should no longer equate that with lower-skilled people, with ...

I’m a Rust Belt Democrat from swingy Western PA ... of what they produce because they can no longer dump it in the United ...

Sarahbeth Maney / USA TODAY NETWORK They really are taking the midnight train going anywhere. Detroit has been touted by Travel + Leisure as a top destination for 2025 — no doubt raising ...

Not yet. But Detroit and Cincinnati are two metro areas once tagged with the Rust Belt stigma. Now, both are boasting a new status. They're showcases for public art. In a recent USA TODAY ranking ...

The former steel town, built along a stretch of the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, has experienced the typical Rust Belt rise ... migrants to enter the United States, either illegally ...

The United States it may be, but America is a patchwork of regions whose boundaries can be confusing — and up for debate. Especially around Election Day. By Remy Tumin Rust Belt. Sun Belt.