President Trump’s re-election plan had relied on bringing jobs back to cities like Erie, Pennsylvania, which has had its hopes of economic resurgence rocked by the pandemic
This is the third of three pieces by Capital and Main on regions of the country that never fully recovered from the Great Recession and that are located in critical battleground states
Hopes had been high in the US lakeside city of Erie that this was going to be its “year to shine”, with millions of dollars of investment and the mayor unveiling a plan for new “family-sustaining jobs”.
In January, the city’s mayor unveiled a plan to develop new apartments and office buildings in the Bayfront area of the city, Pennsylvania’s third-largest, which sits on the south of Lake Erie and is home to about 100,000 people and a major port.
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