As both the regional and national economies continue to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, evidence continues to show that the impacts have been far from even across the labor force. Similar to national trends, employment losses and depressed earnings been much starker for low-wage workers across the Pittsburgh region. The disparity of impacts...

UCSUR has compiled a report on Black workers in the Pittsburgh region based on the most recent Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation periodically produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census EEO Tabulation is sponsored by a consortium of federal agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of...

On June 24, the Census Bureau released detailed county-level population estimates for 2019. County-level estimates of the total population in 2019 were released earlier this year. The latest release includes additional data on the characteristics of the population including breakdowns by age, race and ethnicity for individual counties from 2010 to...

Impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic include depressed levels of domestic and international travel to include smaller flows of workers coming into the United States. Contraction of economic activity was compounded by recent policies put in place between January and May 2020 that formally limited the entry of workers into country. On June 22,...