Introduction: This Policy Brief examines eight Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) across the country in terms of changes in three measures—population, private-sector employment and public-sector employment
Introduction: A quarter of the 21st century has now passed with the 2025 economic performance in the historical data files. This Brief looks at the
Introduction: This review of employment changes compares the performance of the Pittsburgh region with several metro areas across the country that are not state capitals.
Introduction: This Policy Brief describes private-sector job growth performances of Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh area over the 10 years 2013 to 2023 and the last
Introduction: Allegheny Institute’s Policy Brief, Vol. 23, No. 40, reviewed September jobs data and found that total nonfarm jobs growth in the seven-county Pittsburgh
Introduction: As of August 2023, Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) private employment and Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) passenger counts failed to recover to 2019 pre-pandemic
Introduction: For years private-sector employment growth in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)—the seven-county region of Armstrong; Allegheny; Beaver; Butler; Fayette; Washington and Westmoreland—has trailed
Summary: The seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) experienced very little labor force growth from 2000 to 2019. And all that growth and more disappeared
Summary: A recent Policy Brief (Vol. 21, No. 6) outlined the 2020 statewide job losses owing in large part to the pandemic lockdowns. As that
