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For many factory towns, white-collar job loss hurts the most

With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it's easy to pin the blame for Erie, Pennsylvania’s plight on the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico. Many hold the belief that shuttered factories are what primarily ails Erie and other aging blue-collar company towns. Yet since 2008, Erie has suffered ...

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