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Economy / Employment and Unemployment

Employment and unemployment indicators are from the U.S. Department of Labor's Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, which are updated monthly. The "Employment" indicator differs in very important ways from the "Jobs" indicator that PittsburghTODAY also reports.

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.

For more detail and analysis of this indicator, visit Chris Briem's blog Nullspace.
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Data source(s):

Bureau of Labor Statistics

These figures are for the Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

Current month data are preliminary. All data are not seasonally adjusted figures.