Privatizing Garbage Deserves another Look
As city governments across the nation battle budget issues, the notion of privatizing some services is once again making its way to the fore. Detroit,
Allegheny Institute
July 28, 2014
As city governments across the nation battle budget issues, the notion of privatizing some services is once again making its way to the fore. Detroit,
The Department of Labor and Industry has released the preliminary employment data for February 2014 and it does not look good for the region. For
Jobs numbers released on March 18th that incorporated a data re-benchmarking by the Department of Labor and Industry and the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint
Pittsburgh has lost again, although this time it was not a sports contest. The City lost an arbitration award to the labor union representing Public
Pittsburgh City Council recently enacted a prevailing wage bill and is now considering a living wage bill. Both measures will almost certainly increase City spending
In late December the Pittsburgh Promise Program secured a corporate grant from BNY Mellon. The $500,000 gift is the Program’s second largest corporate donation, trailing
In 2003 a duo of the City’s elite chaired a task force known as the Hillman/Roderick Committee to study Pittsburgh’s financial problems and to recommend
In June, the seven county Pittsburgh metro area (MSA) unemployment rate stood at 6.8 percent. In the same month, the national rate was 7.6 percent. So, does that mean the Pittsburgh area jobs market was significantly better than the national?
While waxing ecstatic last month about the Pittsburgh school district’s improving achievement scores in the 2008-2009 school year, the Superintendent studiously avoided a thorough discussion
Pittsburgh’s City Council is holding debates over proposed prevailing wage legislation. The legislation requires that any tenant of a subsidized development “would have to pay