Is Joe Biden trying to lose the Rust Belt?

Published December 20, 2019 6:12pm ET



Believe it or not, most people would like to keep their jobs, even if they’re in the mining industry, the oil industry, or one of the other fuel and energy-related industries the Democratic Party has deemed problematic.

Presidential front-runner Joe Biden should know this. He grew up in Pennsylvania, where oil drilling has recently made a comeback and mining jobs have finally become more common than those in manufacturing. It’s taken Pennsylvania years of job loss, financial insecurity, and deficits to reach its lowest level of unemployment ever (4%), with more than 123,000 jobs back on the market.

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