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 ...

In a March 2009 cover story for The Atlantic, Richard Florida considered the decline of America's rust belt as all but inevitable. "The challenge that many Rust Belt cities share," is not related to ...

Rust Belt takes Ready or Not players to the nest of a notorious gang in the southern parts of Los Suenos, where Las Locos members smuggle lots of illegal stuff and even people through a long tunnel ...

Vivek Ramaswamy, former Republican presidential candidate and current Ohio gubernatorial candidate, has grand plans for the future of the Ohio River Valley. During a Sunday Morning Futures segment on ...

As the Democrats have lost ground to the Republicans with noncollege educated and working-class voters, particularly among white and Latino populations, researchers have wondered how Democrats might ...

Donora, PA, an economically distressed borough of about 4,500 people situated in the heart of America's Rust Belt, has only a couple of claims to fame, or infamy. What it does not have, however, is a ...

Steubenville is outpacing districts with similar poverty levels — not to mention most Ohio districts period — when it comes to the reading scores of their third graders. Schools in impoverished areas ...