In September 2018, the unemployment rate for the 7-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was estimated to be 4.1%, near the lowest rates the region has experienced at any point since the mid-1970s. However, the nation's unemployment rate for September dipped to 3.7%, its lowest rate since 1969. Many economic and demographic trends...

There is a lot of change going on in the city of Pittsburgh, but consider what was underway 60 years ago. Below is the Bicentennial Edition (1958) of a map produced by the City of Pittsburgh's Department of City Planning showing all the various projects they were working on at the time. Just some of the projects then underway or...

The growing population of young professionals has been at the core of the urban growth story for many American cities over the recent decade. Aging of the large cohort of the millennial generation, generally considered those born between the early 1980s through the early 2000s, has had a disproportionate impact in many urban areas. Likewise for the...

The Pittsburgh region is the home to just under 154 thousand veterans as of 2017, but the size and composition of local veterans is changing. The total number of regional veterans has declined nearly 24% between 2010 and 2017, reflecting continuing declines in older veterans with service primarily during World War II or the Korean War.