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If you are the congressman from youngstown, ohio, you are the congressman from what was pronounced today to be the number one highest concentrated poverty rate in america. youngstowns about halfway between cleveland and pittsburgh, which is sort of like saying its halfway between rust and belt. and i mean that lovingly. from lumber and grain mills and then on to steel mills, youngstown used to be a place you could make a living wage. until the steel industry collapsed. september 19th, 1977 young...

Empty room. so he is both explicitly making that point and he is implicitly making that point, that nobody is paying attention to the economic catastrophe that has been wrought in a place like youngstown. it may be that not enough of d.c. is paying attention. but these very ordinary folks who are part of occupy youngstown are paying attention. this is a photo from occupy youngstowns general assembly. ordinary workaday, working americans who say theyve had enough of an economy and a political sys...

Youngstown celebrates when a landlord manages to rent out a building downtown. youngstown wants to live. but youngstowns hard times are getting harder. this report today from brookings talks about youngstowns 19 census tracts that are listed as poverty in extreme. and if you are youngstowns congressman, you are charged with going to washington, d.c. and pleading youngstowns case. screaming it into the wind if you have to. youngstowns congressman is a democrat named tim ryan. listen to him here o...