For all their divisions, Americans share one conviction: the economy comes first. But beyond general concern about “the economy,” affordability and inflation, it’s much less clear what specific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types ...

Democrats know they have a problem with working-class voters but don’t agree on the cause. Commentators chalk Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss to high prices, an unusually short campaign cycle, or voter ...

When the domestic steel industry all but died in the 1970s, Pennsylvania, along with other steel-making states, took on the title “rust belt.” It aptly described the economic devastation brought about ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...

The decline of manufacturing jobs in the Rust Belt began after World War II because of economic transformations. Cities that adapted to these changes by having a more educated workforce thrived ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Accelerating the pace of his re-election campaign, President Bush hopped on a red, white and blue bus Monday and tried to pump up support in Rust Belt states hard hit by ...

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 ...

Note to the national political press corps: Enough with the Rust Belt. The term’s implication of exhaustion and decay may have fit the Great Lakes and industrial Midwest in the 1970s and ‘80s. I ...

Something is shifting in America's housing map, and it's happening quietly. Buyers who once scrambled for homes in the Sun ...

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