Let's talk about RACE
Data on RACE: Stats every Pittsburgher should know
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Your race is part of your identity and will more often than not shape how you experience life in America, in Pittsburgh, in your neighborhood, your workplace and beyond.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Getting an illegal gun in Pittsburgh is easy. Why hundreds of seizures aren’t stopping the problem.
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Since 2012, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police recovered more than 3,600 guns from suspects, and roughly 2,600 of those firearms are believed to have been carried illegally, according to a PublicSource analysis of police data. That’s the most detailed account to date on the scope of Pittsburgh’s illegal gun market. But it’s incomplete.
PUBLICSOURCE EVENT
Mathematician Cathy O’Neil talks big data, ethics and how algorithms can perpetuate inequity and what we can do about it
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O’Neil told about 300 people at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall on Monday evening how she’s witnessed algorithms causing harm: She worked as an analyst on Wall Street during the financial crisis of 2008 and saw first hand how corruption and greed masked their true intent behind ‘math.’
DATA
Small Town, Pennsylvania: The workforce of small-town Southwestern Pennsylvania
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Facts about the jobs and industries fueling rural counties and their residents
EDUCATION
From school to jail: How hundreds of kids get arrested in Pittsburgh schools every year
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School administrators can, and do, call the school police on students even in elementary school. And the racial disparity in which students age 10 and older face arrests and citations at school is staggering.
The Charter Effect
How the money flow between public districts and charter schools in Allegheny County fueled animosity
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This series will expose and explain the data and records behind the charter schools operating in Allegheny County.
SPECIAL PROJECT
Small Town, Pennsylvania: Facts you should know about the small towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania
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Quick takes on population, jobs, drilling and the opioid epidemic.
Pittsburgh's lead problem
How dangerous is Pittsburgh’s lead problem? The data is contradictory and the damage could be worse than officials say.
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We still don’t have an answer to the most critical question: What health effects could have come from the illegal switch to cheaper corrosion control treatment?
PUBLIC SAFETY
With a growing opioid crisis and Trump’s budget proposal, future of Pa. Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs is uncertain
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One of the agencies responsible for tackling the growing opioid crisis in Pennsylvania found stable footing in recent years, but that progress could be in jeopardy.
MONEY & POLITICS
Pennsylvania 2016 state salaries
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Let’s be honest: No one really likes paying their taxes. But since we have to pay them, you should know how the state spends the money.