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The Great Lakes megalopolis shown in orange, part of the Rust Belt Sectors of the U.S. economy as a percentage of GDP between 1947 and 2009 [20] Since the term "Rust Belt" is used to refer to a set of economic and social conditions rather than to an overall geographical region of the U.S., the Rust Belt has no precise boundaries.
Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
Many associate American deindustrialization with the mass closing of automaker plants in the now so-called Rust Belt between 1980 and 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The US Federal Reserve raised interest and exchange rates beginning in 1979, and continuing until 1984, which automatically caused import prices to fall.
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Donald Trump narrowly captured each on his way to collapsing the Democrats’ vaunted “blue wall” in 2016. Joe Biden grabbed them back four years later – by the narrowest of margins.
Across the industrial belt from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, private job growth from the first three months of 2017 through the first three months of 2020 lagged the rest of the country - with ...
In the United States, deindustrialisation is mostly a regional phenomenon centered in the Rust Belt, a region including the original industrial centres from New England to the Great Lakes. The number of people employed in manufacturing nationwide peaked in 1979 at 19,553,000 jobs, although the most significant losses occurred in the first ...
Although some other Rust Belt cities such as Pittsburgh have since successfully been able to diversify their economic base, [21] as of December 2010, more than a generation after deindustrialization, Youngstown has not recovered. [22] The deindustrialization of Youngstown has been well documented. [23]