ECONOMY

Rust Belt Survivors Find New Ways To Shine

Butler County, Pa., is proof that there is life after near-death for an industrial steel center in the Northeast.

by Bruce Stokes

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008


The caricature of crumbling factory towns with their dead-end jobs no longer adequately describes the diverse economic life that has emerged out of the rubble of what was once America's industrial heartland. Witness the story of Butler County in western Pennsylvania.

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