Employment Slowdown Deepens
A recent Policy Brief (Volume 13, Number 16) noted that total private employment growth in the Pittsburgh region had cooled considerably. The twelve month rise from January 2012 to January 2013 was only one percent, representing about a 10,000 job increase, and a continuation of the slowing trend that began in the second half of 2012. Unfortunately, preliminary jobs figures for February 2013 (the latest reported) show the employment gains cooling still further.
Christopher Wendt
April 15, 2013
