"Pulling Apart" also highlights income levels and trends in "post-tax
income." This includes the value of the Earned Income Tax Credit that benefits
low-income families and also includes the cash value of food stamps,
subsidized school lunches, and housing subsidies.

* Of the 11 largest states , only New York and New Jersey experienced a
bigger increase than Pennsylvania in the ratio of the average income of
the top 5 percent to the average income of the bottom 20 percent.

"While productivity growth has grown rapidly in the last decade," said
Price, "most of the benefits of that growth continue to go to a thin slice at
the top. Since 1979, inflation has eaten away 28
percent of the value of the minimum wage.7.7 to 4.

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S. It is estimated
that each $1,000 covers the cost of one youth working, including cost of site
supervisors and equipment. Bal.

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"It is striking that
Pennsylvanian's inequality grew more in a period that starts after the job
loss of the 1970s had already begun to winnow the Commonwealth's middle
class.

* The top 5 percent of Pennsylvania families as a group enjoyed a larger
total dollar increase in income than all families in the middle fifth
and bottom fifth combined.

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Summer TANF Youth Allocation
2004 and 2005

Summer 2004 Summer 2005
Allocation of Allocation of
TANF Funds - TANF Funds -

Local Workforce Area $15,000,000 $25,000,000
Albany/Resselaer/Schenectady $293,055 $549,775
Broome/Tioga $184,485 $300,950
Allegany/Cattaraugus $148,020 $286,075
Cayuga/Cortland $107,460 $208,100
Chautauqua $114,855 $211,150
Chemung/Schuyler/Steuben $205,710 $340,575
Chenango /Delaware/Otsego $100,245 $192,225
Clinton/Essex/Franklin/Hamilton $178,260 $281,925
Columbia/Greene $45,255 $70,325
Dutchess $113,775 $193,850
Erie $687,885 $1,294,375
Fulton/Montgomery /Schoharie $104,205 $176,350
Genesee/Living.

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6 to 12. During this period , U.Y. Lawrence $178,215 $273,225
Suffolk $410,730 $666,450
Sullivan $48,090 $79,900
Tompkins $105,300 $172,700
Ulster $59,505 $132,400
Westchester Co.

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Over Past 20 Years, Low-Income Families Gain $3,381 as High-Income Families
Gain $56,098

Trends Suggest Need for Immediate Action on Minimum Wage

HARRISBURG, Pa.org.
The Keystone Research Center is a Harrisburg -based research organization
and leading source of independent analysis of Pennsylvania's economy and
public policy.

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These trends are in marked contrast to the broadly shared prosperity of
the late 1940s to the early 1970s."

The New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals (NYATEP)
is the organization that promotes, enhances, and serves the interests of local
workforce investment agencies and system partners in New York State.

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"Income inequality trends and slow income growth at the bottom are reasons
why a raise in Pennsylvanian's minimum wage is needed . 10,000 additional lower income youths will be eligible for
summer employment

ALBANY, N./Orleans/Wyoming $178,350 $333,700
Hempstead/Long Beach $204,285 $358,594
Jefferson/Lewis $200,190 $307,225
Monroe $553,095 $936,525
New York City $9,047,385 $14,476,475
Niagara $216,120 $355,900
Herkimer/Madison/Oneida $230,475 $450,475
Onondaga $286,725 $531,275
Ontario/Seneca/Wayne/Yates $176,175 $278,600
Orange $112,095 $276,250
Oswego $146,670 $289,875
Oyster Bay $81,855 $127,306
Rockland $69,870 $114,675
Saratoga/Warren/Washington $109,620 $170,400
St.

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Price noted a recent KRC study showing that in 35 of the state's rural
counties, one in four or more workers would benefit directly or indirectly
from a raise in the state's minimum wage because many low-wage workers live in
rural areas of the state.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis
on a range of government policies and programs.keystoneresearch.

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org.

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In contrast, the average income of the richest fifth of
families grew from $73,273 in the early 1980s to $129,371 in the early
2000s (by 77 percent ). income levels
doubled in each fifth of the distribution.keystoneresearch.

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This
ratio nearly doubled, from 6.epinet.

* Pennsylvania went from having the 16th lowest top fifth to bottom fifth
ratio to having the 20th highest one.6.

NOTE: Please find attached the impacts from cuts in last year's funding
in various regions throughout New York State as well as results from a June
2003 survey regarding the impacts of summer youth programs.

Issues raised by the problem of poverty, responses to poverty by society, examples, concerns and problems of poverty in the modern world.

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"Pennsylvania once had a strong middle class and one of the most equal
state income distributions. Eligible participants must be from
families whose incomes do not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level,
approximately $38,000 for a family of four.

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"The story told by this data is that inequality has grown nationally but
it has grown even more in Pennsylvania, " said Stephen Herzenberg, an economist
and executive director of the Keystone Research Center. The Economic Policy Institute
is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate
about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy., After last year's funding cuts that
crippled summer youth employment programs throughout New York State, Governor
Pataki and the New York State Legislature have increased funding for the
program this summer. As a result, 10,000 additional lower income youths
throughout New York State will be eligible for summer employment .

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The cuts that many of the regions throughout the state experience last
year will be restored ," John Twomey, Executive Director, NYATEP said.

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* The income gap between the top and middle fifths of families in
Pennsylvania grew faster in the last two decades than in any other state
except for Kentucky.

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/Putnam $173,895 $337,987
Yonkers $128,145 $224,388
Total $15,000,000 $25,000,000

Contacts:
Ben Roberts: 716-854-8182
Katie McGraw: 518-431-1541
E-3 Communications

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"Pulling Apart: A State -By-State Analysis of Income Trends," compares data
for 2001-03 with 1980-82, a comparable period of recession and slow job
growth.9 percent.

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A fact sheet summarizing the report's data on Pennsylvania is available
from the Keystone Research Center Web site http://www.
"The impacts from the cuts in the program last year had significant
negative reverberations in regions throughout New York State," David Mathis,
President, New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals and
Executive Director of the Oneida County Workforce Investment Board. "Summer
employment programs not only provide youths with jobs and the opportunity to
gain valuable social and organizational skills but also provide valuable
services for the severely handicapped as well as summer recreational
activities at local parks.

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"We know from other data that the gap between the
top and the bottom is driven heavily by the affluence of the Philadelphia
suburbs and the poverty and economic stagnation of the 'Other Pennsylvania'
that spans the rural T and parts of the Southwest," Price added.

Among the study's specific findings:

* In Pennsylvania, the average income of the bottom fifth of families grew
from $15,167 in the early 1980s to $18,548 in the early 2000s , a rise of
22 percent.org.

* Pennsylvania had the 11th highest increase in the top fifth to bottom
fifth ratio from 1980-82 to 2000-03.

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org or the Economic Policy Institute Web site
http://www. In 1980-82, Pennsylvania had the 14th
lowest ratio.

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, In Pennsylvania, the gap between
high-income families and poor and middle-income families grew significantly
from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, according to a new nationwide study
by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy
Institute, co-released today with the Keystone Research Center.

* Meanwhile, the average income of the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania
families rose by 124 percent in the 20-year period. It went from $99,562
in the early 1980s to $223,152 in the early 2000s, an increase of
$123,590. From 1947 to 1968, when
a rising tide lifted all Pennsylvania boats, the inflation-adjusted value of
the minimum wage more than doubled."
The full text of the report, "Pulling Apart: A State-By-State Analysis of
Income Trends," is available from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Web site http://www.

* Pennsylvania from 2001-03 had the 10th highest top fifth to bottom fifth
ratio of the 50 states.

* Pennsylvania now has the 7th highest ratio of the average income of the
top fifth to middle fifth - 2.

* Of the 11 largest states, Pennsylvania experienced the largest increase
in the ratio of the top 5 percent to the middle - from 2.

Statewide Employee Training Group Applauds Funding Increase for Summer Youth Job Program

NYATEP
advocates for the concerns of its membership at the State and national levels,
and with the various New York State agencies involved in the administration of
workforce investment programs.

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Income Inequality Grew in Pennsylvania Over the Past Two Decades

ADDITIONAL FACTS ON PULLING APART IN PENNSYLVANIA

* Of 11 large states, Pennsylvania had the second-highest percentage
increase for the top 5 percent, higher than California, Massachusetts,
Texas, and Florida, and trailed only New Jersey at 131. In
2005, the program has been restored to the $25 million level."
Summer youth job programs are administered through local workforce
investment boards through funding from the state plan for temporary assistance
for needy families (TANF) block grant.

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It now has one of the more unequal," added KRC
labor economist Mark Price.

* The average income of the middle fifth of households increased from
$37,200 in the early 1980s to $48,543 in the early 2000s , an increase of
31 percent. Much of KRC's research is available free of charge on the Web
at http://www. Funding for
the program was slashed 40% last year from $25 million to $15 million. "We would
like to thank the Governor and the State Legislature for increasing funding to
the summer youth program.

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* Pennsylvania went from having the 16th lowest top-to-bottom ratio out of
the 50 states to having the 20th highest one.cbpp.

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