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Old 05-28-2014, 03:40 PM
 
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The Post-Gazette is writing a series of stories about the immigrant population in Pittsburgh:


Pittsburgh's economy has gained from high-skilled immigrants

Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto takes steps to attract more immigrants to Pittsburgh

Immigrant mapping of Pittsburgh


And courtesy of Chris Briem, here's a graph illustrating the percentage of residents in the city and the metropolitan counties who are foreign immigrants arriving since 2000:





The city of Pittsburgh is basically at parity with the United States as a whole, and though that's still pretty low for a major city, it's not as low as it's often portrayed. I remember reading somewhere that all foreign immigrants in the city account for something between 7% and 8% of its population, which means that about half of them have arrived since 2000. Of course, once you get outside of Allegheny County, there are barely any foreign immigrants at all. In fact, none of the six outlying counties have even 1% of their populations consisting of foreign immigrants arriving since 2000. It just goes to show you how thoroughly those counties are demographic laggards.
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Old 05-28-2014, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Attracting highly skilled and innovative newcomers, whether they are from elsewhere in America or abroad is a good idea.

The fact that Carnegie immigrated here from Scotland, and Frick transplanted to Pittsburgh from out in Fayette County, certainly benefited the region immensely.


But I'm not sure what a mayor can do to bring these kinds of folks in, I don't know what Peduto's predecessors did to insure that these men came to the burgh.
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Old 05-28-2014, 05:26 PM
 
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neither carnegie nor his mother were high skilled when they arrived
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Old 05-28-2014, 06:23 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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Aren't all immigrants "foreign" by definition?
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Old 05-28-2014, 06:54 PM
 
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Attracting highly skilled and innovative newcomers, whether they are from elsewhere in America or abroad is a good idea.
Most of our immigrants have been highly educated for many, many decades.
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