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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. youngstown's about halfway between cleveland and pittsburgh, which is sort of like saying it's 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 youngstown sheet and tube announced it would lay off 5,000 workers. since then, since youngstown, ohio'...

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 youngstown's general assembly. ordinary workaday, working americans who say they've had enough of an economy and a political system that only works for the rich. these are occupy youngstown's tents outside a bank. an implicit ...

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