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Sustainability / Employment and Unemployment

The ability to provide employment for residents seeking it is a key measure of the sustainability and quality of life for residents. 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 seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October was 7.3 percent, 0.1 percentage points lower than the rate in September 2012 and 0.1 percentage points higher than the rate in October 2011. The unemployment rate in every region except Philadelphia declined year-over-year. However, Pittsburgh's rate remains below the benchmark and national averages.

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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.