A steelworker oversees an operation at ArcelorMittal’s Indiana Harbor operations. More than half the steel mill jobs in Lake County have vanished since 1990. An ArcelorMittal steelworker moves an order of steel in the slabyard in Plant 2 at the East Chicago mill. More than half the steel mill jobs in Lake County have vanished since 1990. Steelworker jobs have been declining since the 1970s, but the job losses in the steel industry that built Northwest Indiana have been accelerating over the last few decades.
Lake County had 26,761 in Primary Metal Manufacturing as recently as 1990, according to the […]
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