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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.
This is a list of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, ordered by their populations as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These 50 cities have a combined population of 49.6 million, or 15% of the national population.
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.
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 ...
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.
Time will tell if Trump can reverse those states' fortunes, but in the meantime, many of the states in the Rust Belt are dying slowly.
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 ...
Flint had been described as one of the poorest Rust Belt cities. [28] One estimate was that its population had declined by half since 1950. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] In 2002, authorities established a "municipal land bank" to buy abandoned or foreclosed homes to prevent them from being bought up by real estate speculators. [ 31 ]