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...Meanwhile, the Rust Belt has spoken....
...The American rust belt, British post-industrial towns and Parisian banlieues all testify to how many governments failed to spread the benefits of globalisation to all its citizens....
...The struggles of the factory, run by Pittsburgh-based US Steel Corporation, reflect the torpor that has descended on US manufacturing in 2019....
...Nearly all Democratic senators across the rust-belt won by double digit margins....
...While the approach has created jobs (though often low-income ones) and overall economic growth figures that are higher in the Sun Belt than the Rust Belt, it also means that states have less to spend on...
...Mr Trump won 61 per cent of the vote in Arkansas and, buoyed by support in other rust belt and southern states, took the White House....
...But it’s got to be a trade policy that works for working people and not just the CEOs of large corporations,” he added....
...Yet for all their charm, most of these cute-as-a-button fixer-uppers are cheap because they are in flyover Midwestern towns, or deep in the struggling rust-belt....
...He’ll be counting on an optimistic attitude in the rust-belt states. Poll tracker also here....
...She seemed successful but this large corporation was a hospital. It’s very different.”...
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...And if you look at it state by state, you can see that sentiment has gone up even in Rust Belt states in which things for the infamous working class white Trump voters have arguably got worse....
...But a different study prepared for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation predicted the real number could fall 10,000 jobs short....
...The economy in the rust belt area of southern Wisconsin is looking up. Customers are coming in to get their air-conditioning fixed, instead of just driving around with the windows down....
...Most corporate value lives in Silicon Valley (the top 10 per cent of corporations taking 80 per cent of the private sector wealth pie are mostly big, intellectual property-rich technology companies)....
...China International Capital Corporation, a partly state-owned investment bank, said the drop in investment raised doubts about previous years’ figures....
...As research by groups from the International Monetary Fund to the OECD to McKinsey has shown, the technology-related job disruption that resulted in rust belt job losses and wage stagnation since 2000 is...
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