America's Fastest-Dying Cities

Despite a decade of national prosperity, the former manufacturing backbone of the United States is in rougher shape than ever, still searching for some way to replace its long-stilled smokestacks.

Where's it worst? Ohio, which racked up four of the 10 cities on the list in a Forbes magazine analysis.

These, and the other metropolitan areas, face fleeing populations, painful waves of unemployment and barely growing economies.

Read the full story in Forbes magazine.