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- overproduction causing fall of world price
- plastic materials gained importance
- Asian countries produced more cheaply
- main business: automobile production
- many still have HQs there (Ford)
- attracting new businesses
- slowly reviving economy
- government funding
- want to become more service oriented
- bankruptcy and debt
- steelworks converted to green areas and ware houses
- big health system
- fifth largest software producer in U.S.A.
- European immigrants and African Americans came for work
- tended to have industrial or business skills
- convenient area for steel manufacturing
- 1970's decline started showing
- people moved to Sun Belt
- businesses moved away
- factories started closing
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- formerly important area for steel factories
- mostly in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
- cities very affected by it:
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- Pittsburgh
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https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/economic-policy-papers/competition-and-the-decline-of-the-rust-belt
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