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Originally Posted by eldondre
the metro area is around 5.6-5.7 million. at any rate, what's most troubling about the city's economy is when you start stripping away government and non-profit jobs. the city has actually lost private sector jobs over the past ten years but it'sbeen offset bygrowth in non-profits.
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True, although growth in "non-profits" as a whole is not automatically bad. Expanding university systems and health care entities are still valuable. However, on the whole I agree that our hemorrhaging of private sector, white collar jobs is extremely troubling.
I'm curious about the trend of creeping tax rates in the suburbs as municipalities struggle to deal with rapidly expanding infrastructure. Also, my understanding is that PA statewide has burdensome business taxes and has generally had stagnant job growth over the past decade+.
ww.philly.com/.../20090316_Compared_to_burbs__city_tax_burden_has_ea sed.html
Pa. tax burden has risen 49 percent in 10 years - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review