Few regions pose as much of an economic conundrum as Pittsburgh. Is the city and region – once the center of American steelmaking – a paragon of postindustrial transformation, or a left-behind region still struggling to move beyond its industrial past? I’m an economist at the University of Pittsburgh and author of the new book “Beyond Steel:…
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