Struggles

== Links ==
* racism
Some merit comes with a merger of city and county.
== Struggles over Job ==
At the jobs page, an article notes that 24 percent of Pennsylvania's businesses can't find qualified employees, even as 350,000 state residents are out of work. The cause is a skills gap. If companies struggle to find qualified workers, they'll move to places with a better workforce. 
:The Youth Technology Summit can help with technology as well as the other pressing concepts.
== Struggles with special interests.==
Successfully passing local legislative limits and controls can net some successes. Campaigns can be waged and victories earned. However, local wins are open to attack through nonenforcement, legislation at other levels of government and litigation. In other words, all three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) on all jurisdictional levels (local, state and federal) are fully owned an operated by the rich and powerful. Therefore, once legislation is enacted on a local level, activist cannot rest on his/her laurels. Be ever vigilant. Safeguard the gains and work toward similar changes on a higher jurisdictional level.
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* Dr. Frances Barnes tenders resignation (3.2 meg QuickTime movie) before city council in the fall of 2004. Frances was a member of the human relations commission who was discriminated against. The board who looks into discrimination practies discrimination.
* Dr. Carmine on racism, audio, 6.4 megs.
* Dr. Carmine on youth issues, audio, 6.0 megs.
* Blacks want a place at table in city-county mergers a PG article on November 14, 2004.
* Proportional voting system phased out article in the PG on November 14, 2004. Header: Cities did away with it because it gave prolitical minorities too much power.
* Pittsburgh's idenity and diversity needs to be protected 4.4 meg audio, James Carmine.
* Hill House event for GOP platform in 2001 with Carmine.