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How Gary, Indiana, A Former Steel Industry Darling, Is Dealing With Poverty, Tariffs

Published June 12, 2018 at 1:40 PM EDT

Gary, Indiana, was once the darling of the U.S. steel industry. But factory jobs melted away in the 1970s and ’80s.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson checks in on the status of the city with Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (@karenaboutgary), and asks how the talk of new steel tariffs is going over in town.

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In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo U.S. Steel's sprawling Gary Works plant in Gary, Ind., sits a short distance from Gary's City Hall, right. (Joe Raymond, File/AP)
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In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo U.S. Steel's sprawling Gary Works plant in Gary, Ind., sits a short distance from Gary's City Hall, right. (Joe Raymond, File/AP)