The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area’s unemployment rate — seasonally adjusted — decreased a total of 0.8 percentage points from July 2016 to July 2017 to 4.9 percent. Pittsburgh’s jobless rate was higher than the benchmark average of 3.7 percent and was the second-highest unemployment rate of all benchmark regions in July. This data comes from the U.S. Department of... More
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Unemployment Rate
Sustainability / Employment and Unemployment
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Change in Employment, Unemployment and Labor Force
Sustainability / Employment and Unemployment
The number of unemployed in the Pittsburgh MSA — seasonally adjusted — decreased by 15.1 percent in July 2017 compared to July 2016. The number of employed decreased by 0.4 percent year-over-year while the total labor force decreased by 1.2 percent. More