America's Fastest-Dying Cities

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Youngstown, Ohio (Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio-Penn., metropolitan statistical area) Migration (since 2000): -28,435 Total population change: -32,260 June 2008 Unemployment: 7.3% (2000 average: 5.8%) Annualized GDP growth: 1.2% It's been many years since the Republic Steel Company dominated the economy of Youngstown, Ohio, and nearby Warren and Boardman, Ohio. Through a chain of mergers, Republic Steel is now part of the steel giant ArcelorMittal. ArcelorMittal is headquartered in far-off Luxembourg. Since 2000, nearly 30,000 of the region's 600,000 people have followed suit and departed for different climes themselves.

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