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If you’re a woman practicing medicine, you should probably ask for a pay raise. According to a new study conducted by Jama Internal Medicine, there’s a $20,000 pay gap between academic medical professionals of opposing genders.
Employment Roughly 33,000 Pennsylvanians will face new limits on the amount of time they can receive food stamp benefits due to a rule change.
Pittsburgh’s population decreased by an estimated 1,374 people to 304,391 people from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2015, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
It was the second consecutive year of population decreases for the city after three rare years of population increases.
Those three years from 2011 to 2013 were the city’s only recent yearly population increases.
It seems like everyone is going to college these days. And then more college, just packing on the degrees. But that’s not really the case.
Even as Pittsburgh bursts with technological innovation, John Bares, of Uber, said university graduates aren’t sticking around and the city needs to move faster to compete with the West Coast.
On Monday, Wolf signed an executive order that will raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.15 for Pennsylvania state employees under his jurisdiction and those hired under future state contracts.
Mayor Bill Peduto officially called for an end to overtime pay for suspended officers Thursday, putting him at odds with the Pittsburgh Fraternal Order of Police [FOP], which claims the city is violating a 2014 agreement.
Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry is awarding $1.2 million in transition services contracts Tuesday to eight organizations to aid high school students with disabilities transition to jobs and secondary education.
The ride-sharing company already has an Advanced Technologies Center near Carnegie Mellon University, and it announced on Tuesday that it plans to open another at the Almono Development Center in Hazelwood, a neighborhood southeast of the city center.
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