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Have you seen our Economy indicators on Hotel Occupancy? Read about it.

Check out real-time water quality readings thanks to our friends at 3Rain.org. Read about it.

For the first time in decades, domestic in-migration in the region exceeded out-migration! Read about it.

Want to become involved with PittsburghTODAY?? Read about it.

Pittsburgh ranks third in the number of LEED-certified buildings. Read about it.

A reasonably effective way to evaluate overall health status is to simply ask. Read about it.

Did you know that 45,000 jobs in SW PA are dependent upon the waterway transportation system? Read about it.

Our neighbors in Ohio and West Virginia lead the region in classical music attendance. Read about it.

Pittsburgh trails Baltimore, St. Louis and Denver in number of cultural institutions. Read about it.

Educational and Health Services is Pittsburgh’s largest job sector. Read about it.

Registered nurses pay is low in Pittsburgh by national standards. Read about it.

Pittsburgh last among benchmark regions in startup firms. Read about it.

No benchmark region has as high a high school graduation rate as Pittsburgh. Read about it.

A bad air day in Pittsburgh is still bad. Read about it.

Local spending on schools is low by benchmark standards. Read about it.

Rush hour traffic in Pittsburgh is less congested than in most cities? Read about it.

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  • The Pittsburgh region's not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was 6.6 percent, 0.9 percentage points lower than the rate in December 2010. The unemployment rate in every region declined over the same period. Pittsburgh's rate remains one of the lowest of our benchmark regions and well below the national average.

  • Data for 2011 on total foreclosures and foreclosures as a percent of all housing until reveal that Pittsburgh had the second-lowest rates and total number of foreclosures. Detroit had almost 95,000 foreclosures in 2011, and the rate there was almost 5 percent.

  • Wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released show that average weekly wages in the Pittsburgh region were up again in the second quarter of 2011. The cost of living index for the Pittsburgh region for all of 2011 was below the benchmark average.

Read more about the Regional Indicators program.