“I know what Christmases looked like,” said Dwan B. Walker, mayor of the western Pennsylvania town. Once a union-powered Democratic juggernaut, Beaver County went Democrat by 8.8 percentage points in 2000 and 2.7 points in 2004. ( Alexander Panetta )It’s no accident Trump chose a nearby Pennsylvania county as the site for his first economic speech of the general election. He promised to bring back steel jobs, fight foreign subsidies, buy American steel for public projects and renegotiate or cancel NAFTA. Nor does he mention an even more irremediable reality — technological change has eliminated most steel jobs.

Source: thestar October 04, 2016 00:39 UTC