Although this report was conducted for St. Louis, the benchmarking data sheds some light on Pittsburgh's situation, relative to comparable areas. (Kudos to the East West Gateway Council of Governments for a very thorough report!)
A lot of our usual depressing trends are continuing. (We don't attract people from other countries or have many babies.) But there is also some good news. Our gross metro product is growing (the tech sector, in particular). We don't have many teen pregnancies or car crashes. Our unemployment rate is better than Seattle's.
Of course, there's still plenty of bad news. Check out the stats on minority and women owned businesses. Dreadful. Also, we're #1 in cancer incidence and population age 65+ with a disability. No wonder health care jobs are booming.
By the way, got this great information from my new fav workforce blog, Convergence.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Benchmarking Pittsburgh
Although this report was conducted for St. Louis, the benchmarking data sheds some light on Pittsburgh's situation, relative to comparable areas. (Kudos to the East West Gateway Council of Governments for a very thorough report!)
A lot of our usual depressing trends are continuing. (We don't attract people from other countries or have many babies.) But there is also some good news. Our gross metro product is growing (the tech sector, in particular). We don't have many teen pregnancies or car crashes. Our unemployment rate is better than Seattle's.
Of course, there's still plenty of bad news. Check out the stats on minority and women owned businesses. Dreadful. Also, we're #1 in cancer incidence and population age 65+ with a disability. No wonder health care jobs are booming.
By the way, got this great information from my new fav workforce blog, Convergence.
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