We’ve wrapped up our trip to Weirton — interviewed the town’s mayor, as well as four 50-plus laid-off steelworkers and a few others in the town and nearby Steubenville, OH who are over 50 and out of work.

Mark Harris, mayor of Weirton, below, is trying to revitalize the town since employment at the Weirton steel mill has declined from 14,000 in the 1970s to 923 today.

The steel mill, which only produces tinplate currently, is now owned by Arcelor Mittal.

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