By now, the story is well known of how the Pittsburgh area economy went from riches to rags, back to riches after the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, and then reinvented itself as a health care and service-based economy. The impact of UPMC, PNC, BNY Mellon and a host of other health care, financial, and service-based businesses has been studied and touted for
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Congratulations! You’ve graduated from high school and will be furthering your education in the Pittsburgh area. You’ve been bombarded with collegiate brochures. There are dozens of questions bouncing around your brain: “What will my roommate be like? How hard will the classes be? Will I gain the cursed ‘freshman 15’?” There may be another question on your mind: “What is it like to attend school in the Pittsburgh region?”
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Helping Women to Seek Office If you’ve ever observed a car with a steering wheel locked in a turn, you know that the car will go nowhere but in a circle. Perhaps that’s why our government sometimes seems to be running in circles and getting nothing done; it has been turned in one direction. While the population of Pennsylvania is almost equally divided between women
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Ford, Walmart, Hershey, Kohl’s: these large American corporations are household names. But that wasn’t always the case. Each of them started out as a small or family-owned business. Henry Ford founded The Ford Motor Company when he developed methods for manufacturing automobiles. Sam Walton had one small discount store when he went into business in 1962 in Arkansas. Milton Hershey began selling caramels before he
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Before 1848, the non-native population of California was approximately 1,000 people. After gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill that same year, fortune hunters known as ’49ers flooded into the California territory, swelling the population of non-native Californians to 100,000 by the end of 1849 and firmly establishing San Francisco as a banking, manufacturing, shipping, and trade center of the west, a status that it still enjoys
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#1 Yet Again! Recently, Sperling’s Best Places compiled its list of “Best Cities to Relocate to in America,” and topping it was none other than Pittsburgh. Among the criteria used by Sperling to evaluate the cities were such elements as people, education, crime, climate, and economy. All these aspects taken together contributed to a factor that distinguishes our city and makes it desirable for businesses
Read the Full Article →Marcellus Shale: you’ve probably heard the name bandied about on the news. So who or what is Marcellus Shale? Well, it’s not a character from the Flintstones or the name of a Motown singer. It is named for a town in upper New York and can be found in formations of varying thickness beneath about 60 percent of Pennsylvania. Marcellus Shale is an enormous formation
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Often times, being in business can feel like a lonely pursuit, but you don’t have to go it alone. The Chamber of Commerce can be a valuable resource for you and your business. For decades, enterprising Americans have recognized the benefit of being a member of a Chamber of Commerce. The first Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1599 in Marseilles, France, and the United
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The old saying, “It’s not what you know but who you know,” still applies today, and may be more important to your success than ever before. Because the marketplace changes so rapidly, and technology seems as if it becomes outdated as soon as it is released, it is important to network. In addition to the obvious goal of increasing business, networking organizations provide an opportunity for
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Some find that a 4 year College is not a good fit, but still want to further their education. Pittsburgh has plenty of institutions that will help you to gain the knowledge needed to land the job you want. The following are some of the trade, vocational, and career schools located within 50 miles of Pittsburgh. Alan Kells School of Real Estate, Inc. To obtain
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