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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Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow 2013
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Steady as She Goes
Southwestern Pennsylvania’s housing market, which missed the mid-decade boom experienced elsewhere across the nation, remains in the midst of a solid recovery, particularly in the City of Pittsburgh, where shifting demographics are turning many neighborhoods decidedly younger. More
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‘Now We Have a Hammer’
The face of vacancy and blight is grotesque: Lifeless houses with paint flaking from rotted wood facades; rain gutters drooping from roofs; broken-out windows boarded with city-installed plywood; vacant lots strewn with garbage. It’s an epidemic, data suggest, a large-scale problem that municipalities and neighborhood groups have been powerless to do much about, until now. More
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A Safe Place to Be
Crime again defied conventional thinking, as rates across the nation continued to decline despite a sluggish economic recovery and stubbornly high unemployment. And few regions can boast lower violent and property crime rates than southwestern Pennsylvania. More
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The Path to Tragedy
Rolf Loeber and colleagues didn’t anticipate the magnitude of tragedy they would encounter when they began following more than 1,500 Pittsburgh boys from childhood into their adult years to study the developmental pathways that lead children to delinquency and crime. More
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Defying the Economy
A clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the challenges southwestern Pennsylvania’s arts and cultural organizations faced to survive the economic instability of recent years and how they managed to remain a vital regional asset. Four in 10 dealt with annual deficits, and more than a third lost subscribers. Most redoubled efforts to cultivate new... More
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Race Matters
Social equity has long been seen as a key aspect of sustainable communities. In 1996, for instance, the President’s Council on Sustainable Development described a sustainable nation as one that includes a growing economy that provides equitable opportunities for satisfying livelihoods, and a safe, healthy, high-quality life for its citizens now and in the future. More
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Getting Younger
Although southwestern Pennsylvania is still one of the oldest regions in the nation, profound shifts in domestic migration and other factors are steadily washing away the gray, finally putting to rest the decades-old notion that it had become a place young people would rather flee than be. More
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Wealth Management
With six major rivers, thousands of creeks and streams and an average of more than three feet of annual rainfall, Southwestern Pennsylvania has one of the most abundant and reliable supplies of fresh water in a world getting thirstier by the day. It’s an advantage that cannot be overstated. More