Pittsburgh Scoring Jobs
By Christopher Briem
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Some new jobs numbers are out for April. These are the Pittsburgh jobs, not the state data in the news today. Not much change from trend. Region up YOY and for April only below the 2001 über peak that I have argued is a bit anomalous.
Maybe we wil....
:: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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