Ms. Lu, a graduate student, was from the rust belt city of Shenyang in China's northeast.
The region still has a long way to go before it rivals the Rust Belt, though.
The effects of the trifecta sweep have already been felt, especially in the Rust Belt.
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And the glad tidings in manufacturing have not touched all the Rust Belt cities: Camden, N.
In the Rust Belt, the loss of manufacturing jobs has slowed economic growth and with it the housing market.
When the rust belt economy suffered in the late 1970s, house prices there fell, and we saw lots of default.
Again, the new project is "Changing Gears, " a public radio project that looks at the reinvention of the Rust Belt.
Even as the Shanghai factory runs on three shifts, its first joint venture in the rust belt city of Shenyang remains a morass.
The Johnson family was as close to royalty as you could find in the rust belt town of Racine, Wisconsin.
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As in the Rust Belt, delinquencies on subprime loans are increasing, the report says, like the 9% increase in Sacramento from February 2005 to 2007.
And she is the senior editor of Changing Gears, a new public radio project in Michigan that looks at the reinvention of the Rust Belt.
An example is e-Chemicals, which brokers 55-gallon drums of manufacturing chemicals between suppliers like DuPont and those thousands of heavy manufacturers dotting the Rust Belt. n Connecting "wide-thin" markets.
These same people continually remind us about the lost tax revenue, which might mean fewer pay raises for teachers and school administrators and hospital workers in the Rust Belt.
This is great news for website designers, Internet entrepreneurs, registered nurses, and masseuses in California, but grim tidings for traditional metal bashers in the rust belt manufacturing states like Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
The other day, Solve Climate News provided in-depth coverage of a small regional business story with global ramifications: a battery maker called Axion Power in the Rust Belt burgh of New Castle, Penn.
Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist at the left-leaning Centre for American Progress, forecasts increases in the minority and youth vote, and declines in the white working-class vote in the Midwest, the rust belt and the south-west.
It isn't clear how much demand there would be for his planned 800, 000 square feet of office space in the Rust Belt city that has seen its population fall to 198, 000 from its peak of 290, 000 in 1960.
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On the eve of his departure, Isaac gets together with his best friend Billy Poe, a former high-school football star who has also failed to heed the edict that at 18 you should flee the rust belt altogether.
He ran for president in 1988, and although his candidacy drew little attention outside of the Rust Belt, he did receive 2 percent of the vote in the Ohio primary and earned a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community's athletes.
America's way of democracy thus obliges politicians to spend weeks hanging around diners in Iowa and New Hampshire (thanks to the caucuses and primaries) and then later to get to know some of the dullest parts of the mid-west (thanks to the concentration of swing states in the Rust Belt).
Once a center of heavy industry under China's planned economy, Shenyang decayed and formed part of the country's rust belt in the 1990s.
Earlier this week, Obama released a spot about the closing of a Pennsylvania factory, the latest in a series of ads blaming McCain for the loss of "Rust Belt" jobs by pointing to the disappearing manufacturing base in that state, Ohio and Michigan.
Mr. Raymond remarks that the economic policies that in time trapped the Northeast and Rust Belt in spirals of decline never touched Texas.
But the demographic challenges of the Big Orange and the Windy City pale compared to those faced by many cities in the old industrial Rust Belt, which have either lost population or posted only weak increases.
Ohioans have long had a soft spot for heavy metal, which became more popular when the U.S. Rust Belt lost its manufacturing clout in the 1980s, scholars say.
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The reversal of fortunes that William Frey and I noted in November in which fast-growing Western cities like Phoenix changed to losers during the recession and gritty Rust Belt cities like Detroit shed fewer residents continued in 2011, according to the latest edition of a migration study from Atlas Van Lines.
Many of those would come from utility, mining and railroad sectors, with the greatest impact upon Rust Belt states that have many old plants (as well as electoral votes).
According to the report, foreclosures tend to be most common in "Rust Belt" states such as Michigan, Ohio and Indiana and in the "Sun Belt, " which includes California, Arizona and Florida--but for very different reasons.
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