G20 Related Views of Pittsburgh (New Castle, Carnegie: refrigerators, neighborhoods, college)

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http://www.usatoday.com/money/econom...ttsburgh_N.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/09/24...vel/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8271496.stm

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/NorthA...article/699164

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/g20_summit_helping_the_locals_2 (broken link)

http://globalpittsburgh.blogspot.com...-20-great.html

[Hopes]

Steel's current presence here represents only a sliver of the role it once enjoyed, but the industry is far from inconsequential. U.S. Steel, (X) the world's eighth-largest producer, still makes its headquarters downtown. The company's sprawling Edgar Thomson mill, established by Carnegie in 1875 a few miles outside the city, produces steel that's used to make refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers. Nearby, metallurgists, engineers and chemists brew up new steels at a research center on the site of a legendary 19th-century labor dispute.

Until the financial crisis hit last year, U.S. Steel was enjoying the strongest financial performance in its 108-year history.

"There's really no reason why we can't be very competitive here for a long, long period of time," Surma says. "The experts that say we should all be massage therapists and retail store greeters and all that — you know, that's really a road that has a very sad ending to it."

Pittsburgh's heart of steel still beats amid transformed city - USATODAY.com

Many people are unaware that there is a shortage of metallurgists in the United States. Everyone thinks the metals industries are dead. They couldn't be more wrong. If you want your child to graduate from college with companies competing with offers, encourage a major in metals. The starting salaries are very competitive and getting even better as the nuclear field is even snatching up metallurgists since there is a shortage of graduates in that sector too.

[dugdogmaster]

I was just offered a job a couple days ago to be a metallurgist at a small plant in New Castle, with absolutely no experience what-so-ever required, not even a college degree. They said they would have given me all the training I needed. I believe I was offered it though, because of past experiences I have working in the steel industry as quality and inventory control, which is different from metallurgy. I turned it down though, because I like the job I currently have.