Southwestern Pennsylvania’s decades-old recovery from the collapse of its industrial economy has long been recognized as nothing short of remarkable. More recently, other regions watched with envy as it proved resilient to the harshest consequences of recession. “Pittsburgh’s transformation has captured the attention of other communities now confronted with economic crises of their own,” the... More
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Behind The Times – Minority Workforce Participation
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Behind the Times – The Road Ahead
The dynamics of minority workers and their role in the southwestern Pennsylvania labor force are complex, broad in scope and not fully understood. And for decades, those who’ve tried to diversify the workforce have found it largely resistant to change. Data that depict a southwestern Pennsylvania labor force conspicuously low in minority workers lend little... More
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Behind the Times – About the Data
This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Workforce Diversity Indicators Initiative. The first round of analysis focused on workforce participation, job sector employment and worker income. Local data were benchmarked against 14 peer regions. The data are largely drawn from U.S. Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators. The... More
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Behind the Times – Introduction
With mobility in the domestic and international workforce continuing to increase, regions across the United States face increasing competition to retain and attract the workers needed to fuel the maintenance and growth of their regional economies. Having a diverse workforce in which minority workers perceive that they can thrive is one key element in this... More
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Behind the Times – Jobs and Income
Rayfield Lucas had heard there were well-paying jobs to be had in the shale gas industry. Jobs that offered the opportunity to earn his way to a future more secure than the maintenance and warehouse work he’d done in the past could ever promise. He went for it. A little more than a month after... More
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Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow 2014
The 2014 Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow report, produced by Pittsburgh Today, analyzes recent data to assess the Pittsburgh region's standing compared with 14 U.S. cities in 10 categories. Also included are numerous in-depth reports focusing on the most important issues facing Greater Pittsburgh. More
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Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow 2013
The Pittsburgh Today annual report reveals how well the Pittsburgh region is doing compared to fourteen other benchmark regions in eleven categories. Each report includes in depth articles and thoughtful commentary provided by regional leaders. More
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A Nice Place to Visit
Visitors to southwestern Pennsylvania pumped $8.1 billion into the local economy in lodging, recreation, retail, food and beverage, transportation and other spending during 2011, the latest full year of economic impact data reported by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office. That’s a 9.6 percent increase in tourism revenue over 2010 and a record for the region. More
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Economic Transformation
On a broad base, Pittsburgh now has one of the nation’s strongest regional economies Favorable reviews of the southwestern Pennsylvania economy continue to roll in, offering further support for what now is considered an undeniable conclusion: The highly diversified economic structure that took root in the wake of industrial decline decades ago is paying huge... More