The report also found a significant wage gap among adults. cities with both substantial white and Black populations.įor example, the report found that Pittsburgh’s rate of infant mortality for Black babies is more than six times higher than it is for white babies - 13 deaths per 1,000 births compared to two deaths per 1,000 births. The team compared Pittsburgh to nearly 90 other U.S. The report, conducted by a team of Pitt researchers, was released Tuesday by Mayor Bill Peduto’s office and the city’s Gender Equity Commission.Įxamining data related to health, education, poverty and employment, the research team created a new tool - the Index of Ranked Livability - to assess how race and gender groups compare to one another in Pittsburgh and to those same groups in other cities. “What this means is that if Black residents got up today and left and moved to the majority of any other cities in the U.S., automatically by just moving their life expectancy would go up, their income would go up, their educational opportunities for their children would go up as well as their employment,” said study co-author Junia Howell, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. city, according to Pittsburgh’s first report assessing inequality across both race and gender. Move somewhere else, and you’re unlikely to have a drastically different experience than you do here.īut if you’re a Black Pittsburgh resident, your health, education and employment prospects trail those of just about any other comparable U.S. If you’re a white Pittsburgh resident, your health, education and employment outcomes are about average across most other cities in the United States.
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