| Christmas has come early for local TV stations in the capital of America's industrial rust belt. |
| As those industries declined, the upper Midwest became known as the rust belt. |
| Another corporate drama is playing out on the great rust belt stage here in the Midwest. |
| Buffalo has a legacy of dreams gone sour, and even today, surrounded by the horn of American plenty, we are still very much the rust belt. |
| Those in the Midwest's rust belt have been hit hard by job losses, particularly in well-paying manufacturing jobs. |
| The Dabrowa Gornicza steel plant near Katowice, Poland, is a cathedral of Soviet-era rust belt industry. |
