A sign in Donora, PA, touting the Rust Belt city as "the home of champions." Donora, PA, an economically distressed borough of about 4,500 people situated in the heart of America’s Rust Belt, has only ...

Today the citizens of a once-prosperous Pennsylvania town are fighting to create a new birth of prosperity, to reverse the effects of a long economic decline. Jeff Glor shows us the Then . . . and the ...

If you visit the town of Monessen, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, there’s a good chance you’ll see trains filled with coal that has been mined in West Virginia and headed for export ...

Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is a deeply troubled place. The former steel town, built along a stretch of the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, has experienced the typical Rust Belt rise and fall.

Since the 1970s, refugees escaping war and persecution have helped to stem the decline of Utica, N.Y., a town that lost industry and population. By Susan HartmanPhotographs by Todd Heisler June 3, ...

The title Working Man only deals with one aspect of Robert Jury’s film about the effects of a rust belt town’s last factory closing. Allery Parkes (Peter Gerety) is a “working man,” but his ...