For both Pittsburgh and the nation, union membership, and the percentage of regional workers covered by collective bargaining agreements dropped significantly over the half-century following World War II. This trend has impacted Pittsburgh which saw a major contraction of its highly unionized manufacturing industries over the same period. However,...

Last week the Pew Research Center reported on trends in the gender composition of the nation's college-educated workforce.* Their analysis showed that in the 1st quarter of 2019, the number of college-educated women in the workforce (29.5 million) exceeded the number of college-educated men (29.3 million) for the first time. With the gap between...

In April, researchers at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Philadelphia updated their ongoing research on opportunity employment. Opportunity employment is defined as jobs accessible to workers without a bachelor's degree and typically paying above the national median income (2017: $37,690), adjusted for local cost of living differences....

The Census Bureau produces annual updates of the population for the nation, states, counties, and metropolitan areas. The most recent state-level population estimates for 2018 were released earlier this year. In April, population estimates for counties and metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) were released. These newly released...