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Grant funds tech job growth outside Silicon Valley

One America Works, a nonprofit that helps high-growth companies find the right cities for expansion, received a $1 million grant over two years from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Source: Axios: Exclusive: Grant funds tech job growth outside Silicon...

Pittsburgh Adds Tech Jobs after Amazon Proposal

A venture capitalist is working with a city passed over for Amazon’s HQ2 to use its secretive proposal to bring other tech companies to roost. Source: Business Insider: Pittsburgh Adds Tech Jobs Amazon Proposal

Is Pittsburgh Tech Scene the Next Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is facing an exodus of young employees. Here’s why one tech investor is betting on Pittsburgh to take up the mantle. Source: Business Insider: Is Pittsburgh Tech Scene the Next Silicon Valley

FinTech powerhouse Affirm is moving to Pittsburgh

Alternative lending provider Affirm is the latest tech company to look to Pittsburgh for talent, announcing plans to open an office in the Rust Belt city…. Source:...

How we plan to bridge the divide between Silicon Valley and the Midwest after the ‘Comeback Cities Tour’

For those who have not recently driven down the Ohio Turnpike, images of abandoned steel mills and shuttered factories may come to mind. But the view from the car window today looks far different… Source:...

Skilled-Biased Technical Change and Regional Convergence

Between 1940 and 1980 the wage gap between poorer U.S. cities and richer ones was shrinking at an annual rate of roughly 1.4%. After 1980, however, there was no further regional conver- gence overall. This paper quantifies the contributions of skill-biased technical...

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