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Did you know that our region ranks 1st nationally in major league sports appreciation? Read about it.

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

A Little Good News, At Last 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.

Pittsburgh’s unemployment rate lower than all benchmark regions for a fourth month in a row. 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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  • Job totals for 2009 and for the month of January are now available. In both instances, the Pittsburgh region shows year-over-year losses, but in percentage terms the contraction was lower here than the rate in any other benchmark region. Manufacturing job loses accounted for just under half the Pittsburgh total.

  • A new Economy indicator, Gross Domestic Product by region, is now available in three separate formats and Pittsburgh shows to good advantage in each case: Change between 2008 and 2007; changes between 2001 and 2008 in constant and deflated dollars and percentage changes in the same two data sets.

  • One measure of economic distress in housing foreclosures. The latest data for the Pittsburgh Region (2009) show that people are not losing homes at the rates that are being recorded in other benchmark regions.

Read what our experts are saying about the indicators.

  • The preliminary jobs figures for December show that while the Pittsburgh Region is still doing better than most major regions in the country, the recession continues to have a downward pull on the local economy. The region had fewer jobs in December 2009 than it...

  • Innovation Works' Matt Harbaugh discusses Pittsburgh's strong home for startup companies and why we need more venture capital to make the most of them.

  • After several months of small ups and downs in regional job growth, November showed the first sign of a significant recovery in jobs for the region. Job losses declined by 5,600 between October and November. (This does not mean that total jobs increased in the...

Read more about the Regional Indicators Project.