Trained as a teacher and possessing an exceptional intellect, she added to her teaching duties in a French manufacturing town an interest in the problems of workers and the unemployed. (religion-online.org)
The reasons were no different in Middletown than they were in almost every other manufacturing town in the Rust Belt: increasing automation and foreign competition − forces that would only accelerate in successive decades. (news.starbucks.com)
This deeper problem affects not only erstwhile manufacturing towns but also communities across America — and it can't be solved only with trade policy. (vox.com)