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‘Will the Last Steelworker Out of Pittsburgh Please Turn Out the Light?’

‘Will the Last Steelworker Out of Pittsburgh Please Turn Out the Light?’
A worker leaves the U.S. Steel Corporation in Braddock, Pa., on March 10, 2018. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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CLAIRTON, Pa.—The first steel plant located here along the Monongahela River a little more than 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was built in 1901. By 1903, the borough of Clairton formed around the industry, and by 1904, U.S. Steel acquired the plant from St. Clair Steel, and the industrial base of the United States began its reign here in Western Pennsylvania.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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