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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:06:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Rural and Urban Employees Working at or Near $5.15 an Hour Would See Greatest Gains from Minimum Wage Raise </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new KRC brieifng paper, Where Pennsylvaina Low-Wage Workers Live, estimates the number of workers in each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties who would benefit from raising the Commonwealth's minimum wage. The data show that in 29 of the state's rural counties, one in four or more workers would benefit directly or indirectly from a minimum wage increase. In each of Pennsylvania’s two most populous counties, Allegheny and Philadelphia, about 50,000 workers would benefit directly and roughly 35,000 additional workers would benefit indirectly.]]></description>
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      <title>Stephen Herzenberg Testifies Before PA Senate Labor and Industry Committee</title>
      <description><![CDATA[KRC Executive Director Stephen Herzenberg recently testified before the Pennsylvania Senate's Labor and Industry Committee during its hearings in Philadelphia on the minimum wage.

Dr. Herzenberg made the case for raising Pennsylvania's minimum wage as an appropriate response to the wage decline among low wage workers documented in The State of Working Pennsylvania 2005. The text of Herzenberg's testimony submitted to the committee is available for download, and a summary of The State of Working Pennsylvania 2005 is available at www.stateofworkingpa.com.]]></description>
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      <title>The State of Working Pennsylvania 2005: Wages Stagnate or Decline For Most Pennsylvania Workers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[KRC has just released its tenth annual State of Working Pennsylvania report on the condition of the state's economy from the point of view of its middle class

This year's report details how wage stagnation has spread throughout most of the Pennsylvania wage distribution in 2003, with the lowest-paid workers losing ground for the third year in a row.]]></description>
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      <title>Losing Ground in Pennsylvania Early Childhood Education</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the 1980s about 40 percent of teaching staff in Pennsylvania's center-based preschool programs outside the public schools had a four-year college degree. Today, according to a new study by the Keystone Research Center, the number is 27 percent.

The study, Losing Ground in Pennsylvania Early Childhood Education, also reports that the share of staff with a high school degree or less has risen from 34% in the mid 1980s to 43% in the 1998-2004 period.  (Teaching staff, also referred to as early childhood educators, include teachers, administrators, assistant teachers, and aides.)]]></description>
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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>
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