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Pittsburgh beyond the G20

The G-20 summit brought the world’s largest economies together this week to look at the progress the world’s made on recovering from the economic downturn. As the summit in Pittsburgh wraps up, take a look at some sources from the Pittsburgh area that covered the event and the protests surrounding it, and get a perspective [...]

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Mapping the global economy

Times are hard in the U.S. But how do they compare to the downturn worldwide?
A World of Trouble is an interactive map showing unemployment and other hardship indexes by country and connecting them with real-life examples.
For instance, the entry for China talks about how many fewer migrant workers are seen in Beijing now that [...]

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