This Policy Brief examines the real per capita income growth for Pennsylvania and the six states that share a border with Pennsylvania: Delaware; Maryland; New Jersey; New York; Ohio and West Virginia. The study covers the period 2010 to 2024. Percentage changes are calculated for two periods: 2010 to 2024 and 2020 to 2024. The 2024 data are the last official figures for real per capita income reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
The early 21st century headlines regarding the ailing fortunes of Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) are well known. The financial woes afflicting USAirways, at the time, PIT’s major hub carrier, and its eventual bankruptcy led to an enormous drop in flights with an accompanying drop in passenger count as connecting travel plummeted.
In 2000, PIT was the 25th busiest U.S. airport with 8.65 million enplanements. Note that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics ranks airports by the number of enplanements. Passenger enplanements (all figures rounded to the nearest hundredth) began a steep slide over the next five years, falling to just 5.08 million enplanements in 2005, ranking PIT 40th in the nation.
Indeed, “dead on arrival” would be the most apropos way to characterize the chances of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed fiscal 2026-27 Pennsylvania budget being adopted by the General Assembly. For it is far more remarkable for the economic fallacies it promulgates than sound fiscal stewardship, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
Pittsburgh Public Schools, facing a multimillion-dollar deficit that will force it to draw down precious emergency money from its reserve fund, could find partial relief by overhauling its contracting processes, concludes an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.
