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U.S. News & World Report Rates Pittsburgh PA In Top 10 Cities Primed for Recovery
By kevinmihm | August 18, 2009
Pittsburgh (17.3 percent, up 2.4 points). This once industrial city wriggled out of the Rust Belt years ago, and the economy now revolves around medicine, technology, and higher ed. At 7.7 percent, the unemployment rate is nearly 2 percentage points lower than the national average. Few people got rich in Pittsburgh during the real estate boom, which seemed to pass the city by. But the bust has spared Pittsburgh as well, with home prices remaining more stable than in most other markets. That leaves the Steel City primed for a recovery.
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