Pennsylvania is Shrinking. We Need More Workers

Originally published by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

New migration reports show that last year more people moved out of Pennsylvania than moved in, marking the commonwealth’s fourth consecutive year of negative domestic migration. 

In fact, only one of the commonwealth’s past 16 years yielded a net gain in out-of-state migration. One result: Pennsylvania has lost four congressional seats in the last three reapportionments and may lose another in 2030.

But the news isn’t all bad: Pennsylvania has benefited from stagnant economies to its north and east. New Yorkers are also fleeing the Empire State, about four million since 2000, in favor of the much more affordable states. New Jersey lost more than 522,000 residents to outmigration between 2015 and 2024.

Read more at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.