“There is certainly a smaller labor force in Pittsburgh than there was at the beginning of 2019, and that’s not what we’re seeing around the country on average,” said Brian Kovack, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. Could immigrants fill vacant posts?Â
Laura Turbay
Laura Turbay is a graduate student of journalism at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York, where she does business and international reporting. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Boston University. Originally from Boston, she spent most of her life in Cali, Colombia before journeying to New York to become a journalist and worked for the Mott Haven Herald as a student. She enjoys traveling to new cities and countries, with an affinity for the Middle East, and in her free time reads novels that also transport her to new places. As an editorial intern, she is focusing on economic development reporting.
