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Pittsburgh ranked in nation's Top 20 on Brookings Institution list
Jun 17, 2009Pittsburgh beat Detroit again, but to be fair, so did every other one of the top 100 cities in the country in the Brookings Institution listing on the strength of local economies.
The City of Champions ranked 18th, which put it in the tier of the 20 economically strongest metropolitan areas.
The city was behind such places as San Antonio (first); Tulsa, Okla. (ninth); and Des Moines, Iowa (14th). It was just behind Harrisburg (17th).
Pittsburgh bested New Haven, Conn., edging out the home of Yale University, which came in 19th.
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