There may be reasons to idolize the past — better music, cooler cars — but greater prosperity is not among them.

The mayors of three Rust Belt cities across the northern U.S. came to the Institute of Politics to discuss their effort to ...

The Rust Belt largely owes its ambiguous designation ... its value plummeting in a neighborhood overwhelmed by decline. While the city’s downtown may have experienced somewhat of a renaissance ...

Mansfield, and other cities within commuting distance of the planned Licking County Intel plant, are preparing for growth ...

But there are millions of people throughout the cities of the Rust Belt living in neighborhoods ... these houses begin a long and tortuous cycle of decline and neglect, as they transition from ...

In a paper I am presenting next month, two colleagues and I study the role economic restructuring has played on local quality of life in Rust Belt counties since 1970. We study how the decline of ...

Abigail Bottar with member station Ideastream Public Media reported on how the Rust Belt city is preparing for ... like Mansfield. "The decline of places like Mansfield didn't happen overnight ...