MONEY & POLITICS

Pittsburgh has a wage gap. But what does that really mean?

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Men employed by the City of Pittsburgh, on average, earn more money than women. Similarly, white people employed by the city, on average, earn more than people of color. This is what’s known as a wage gap. And among public employees in Pittsburgh, it is real. PublicSource requested data from the city detailing salaries, bonuses and overtime pay for public workers who were employed in 2016.

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Graphic: Pittsburgh’s affordable housing shortage

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The following graphic represents the 17,241 affordable housing units Pittsburgh needs to provide for all households earning 50 percent of the city's median household income or less. For the full story on Pittsburgh's affordable housing shortage, read our explainer: What you need to know about affordable housing (or lack thereof) in Pittsburgh

Source: Pittsburgh Housing Needs Assessment, Mullin & Lonergan Associates

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How Pennsylvania responded to rising drug deaths from heroin and opioid overdoses with stagnant funds

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As overdoses swelled, state lawmakers created Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, elevating it from a humble bureau, and then made it the department with the smallest operations budget in the commonwealth, according to state financial documents.

They also failed to fully restore funding to local drug treatment, which has been cut in several recent budgets. That means fewer resources amid a worsening crisis and shortages of detox beds and slots for long-term drug treatment.

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Allegheny County salaries 2015

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PublicSource wants you to know how your tax dollars are being spent. We believe it’s important to make the salaries of city, county and state employees easy for you to find because there are taxpayer dollars at stake. PublicSource received 2014 and 2015 salary data from Allegheny County through a Right-to-Know Law request, the state's open records law. You can download the full salary data using the link at the bottom of the page. Karen Hacker, director of the Allegheny County Health Department, was the county’s highest-paid employee in 2014 and was on pace to be the highest-paid employee in 2015.

Criminal Justice

Pennsylvania state salaries 2015

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PublicSource wants you to know how your tax dollars are being spent. We believe it’s important to make the salaries of city, county and state employees easy for you to find because there are taxpayer dollars at stake. 

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City of Pittsburgh salaries 2015

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PublicSource wants you to know how your tax dollars are being spent. We believe it’s important to make the salaries of city, county and state employees easy for you to find because there are taxpayer dollars at stake. PublicSource received 2015 salary data from the City of Pittsburgh through a Right-to-Know Law request. Check out the full salary data from 2014 and 2015 here. The city’s highest-paid employees in 2015 were all in the Public Safety Department, due to large amounts of overtime.

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Troubled kids, powerful drugs

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PublicSource built a database of the medications ordered by the six state-operated youth correctional facilities from 2007 through 2013.

The high-security system has been shrinking over the last decade, but the facilities remain to take the state’s most chronic or violent juvenile offenders.

Use this tool to search through the psychotropic drugs prescribed to youth offenders in the state facilities.

Criminal Justice

State Police discipline facts and figures

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PublicSource analyzed the listings of internal misconduct allegations in Pennsylvania State Police reports published annually from 2004 through 2013. The state police summarize the investigations conducted each year and separately list more detailed information on individual allegations.