The 2019 EARN Conference is being in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—an ideal setting to discuss many of the country’s most pressing questions around economic development and racial This year’s EARNCON is being organized in collaboration with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) to ensure that race and racial justice are front and center in the conference’s discussions of state and local Pittsburgh is frequently celebrated as a model of progressive change and often appears in lists of the “most livable” and “greenest” cities in the United States.