Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abandoned Packard auto assembly plant in Detroit in 207 before its demolition. (Patrick Gorski—NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

Late in the summer, several hundred autoworkers jammed into the auditorium of United Auto Workers Local 12, in Toledo, Ohio, for a monthly meeting. Local 12 is the largest amalgamated union in the ...

Gary Winslett is an associate professor at Middlebury College in Vermont. There’s a popular story that politicians in both parties like to tell us: The Rust Belt was a thriving region until China, ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Rust Belt Americana returns to the Quad Cities area this weekend, bringing hundreds of antique vendors, a national car show, live auctiosns and thousands of visitors. Star of ...

If you live in the American rust belt, chances are, you've broken many, many bolts while fixing your car. It's an awful feeling—hearing that "snap," and then experiencing your wrench abruptly give way ...