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    <copyright>2005 by the Keystone Research Center</copyright>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:14:18 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Where Pennsylvania Low-Wage Workers Are</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In recent debates about a proposed increase in the state’s minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.15 per hour, some observers have claimed that only a few workers currently earn the minimum wage. The implication of such assertions is that the proposed increase will neither benefit many workers nor make much difference in the lives of Pennsylvania families, and so raising the minimum wage need not be a priority for the Commonwealth.

This briefing paper addresses the debate about the need for raising the minimum wage by estimating the number of low-wage workers in each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties who would benefit from such a raise. The briefing paper relies on the most recent full year of data available from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the primary government database relied on by economists to track hourly wages.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:13:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education, 1980-2004</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since the early 1980s, there has been a large and unsettling dip in the qualifications of the center-based early childhood workforce nationwide, with 30% of teachers and administrators now having just a high school diploma or less, according to a comprehensive new report published on September 15, 2005 by the Economic Policy Institute, the Keystone Research Center, and the Foundation for Child Development. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The State of Working Pennsylvania 2005</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The State of Working Pennsylvania 2005 examines the health of Pennsylvania's economy from the point of view of Pennsylvania's middle class workers and families.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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