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Youngstown, Rusting Ohio City Is Grim Trump-Clinton Battleground

Shuttered factories, lost hope and worse reign in this western Ohio city. But what Youngstown voters think may shape the country and world for the next four years.

YOUNGSTOWN — If jobs were handed down like hereditary titles, Brent Zitello would be heir to a position in the steel industry. His maternal grandfather spent his life in the steel mills that once girded this city’s economy; his father worked on the railroads that served U.S. Steel and, later, after being laid off, for a steel-scrap company.

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