The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them ...

They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse. The United States can be divided and subdivided into countless regions, each sharing a unique set of ...

The past decades have not been kind to all of America's cities, with some seeing huge population drops. Here are five that ...

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 from ...

These havens of affordability are luring home buyers, including New Yorkers making all-cash offers Home prices have been falling in some parts of the country, but two metropolitan areas in the ...

The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...

Listen as Rebecca Fannin, Journalist and Author of 4 books, and Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, discuss the rise of high-tech industries in the American Rust Belt.

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 ...

The very same day, newly elected Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt issued an executive order doing the same for his state. These decisions were the beginning of a wave that brought major union reforms to the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning play, built from real-life interviews, examines economic crisis in Rust Belt America at the beginning of this century From left to right, David Gow, Kathleen Carey, Michael ...

“Pittsburg is ugly,” said no one ever. In fact, USA Today once called it, “America’s most beautiful city.” My flight attendant sister corroborates that claim: “Seriously one of the most underrated ...

Jovan Davis as Chris, left, talks with Christopher James Murray as Evan, Chris' parole officer in Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat, ” running through March 31 at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany. The play ...