—The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 2,1988 Crisis avoided AZT treatment for AIDS patients to continue By JAMES A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer Pennsylvania AIDS patients being treated with the drug AZT under a federal funding program need not worry about receiving treatment when the payments run out, a state spokesman said. “Governor (Robert P.) Casey is committed to provid ing the necessary funding to assure people receive the AZT necessary,” said Matt Jones, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. The federal program, designed to provide funds for AIDS patients who cannot afford AZT and who do not have sufficient insurance but are ineligible for Medicaid, gave $3O million to states in a one-time grant last September, with states expected to pick up funding later, said Charles Hostetter of the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration. Each state developed its own method for distributing funds to patients, Hostetter said. About 75 percent of Pennsylvania’s $664,191 share of the grant is still available, Jones said. Patients who have signed up for the program by Sept. 30 can continue to receive the medicine under the federal grant until the money runs out, probably sometime next summer, he said. About 110 people in Pennsylvania are currently being treated under the program, Jones said. When the state program began, funding was available only to patients with green cards that pay for hospitaliza tion but not medicine, Jones said. Later, the program expanded to include patients with single annual incomes under $20,000 or family incomes under $30,000 because funds were available, he said. New study: By DEBRA YUHASZ Collegian Staff Writer Highly optimistic career goals are often shattered the moment a college educated woman enters the working world. A recent study conducted by three University professors shows that in comes for female college graduates in Pennsylvania equal those of male high school dropouts. “No matter what age, level of edu cation or general job class, women’s earnings still lag behind men’s (earn ings),” said Ruth Leventhal, provost and dean at the University’s Capitol Campus in Harrisburg and one of the study’s researchers. The research results, which were released last month, reveal that the median salaries of full-time female employees amount to only 63 percent of the median incomes of equivalent male workers, Leventhal said. The study defines two main trends, said Christopher K. McKenna, anoth er researcher and associate professor of management science at the Capitol campus. These are: ■ A nationally evident difference between men’s and women’s salaries. ■ A clear relation between higher education levels and higher incomes for both men and women. WEEKEND SPECIALS with any order of $5.00 or more !! 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Lynne Goodstein, director of Wom en’s Studies Program at the Universi ty, said, “I think that undergraduate women are unrealistically optimistic of the degree that women have been accepted in the workplace.” People still think a woman’s job is only secondary to household responsi bilities, she said. Eighty-eight percent of the women who dropped out of high school earn less than $20,000 per year, while only 55 percent of male high school drop outs are in this category, Leventhal said. When considering the salaries of college graduates, 52 percent of the women have a salary under $20,000 per year, yet only 25 percent of col lege educated men remain in this class, she said. On the other end of the scale, only 12 percent of the female college grad uates earn over $30,000 per year, but 41 percent of the equally educated males earn salaries over $30,000, she added. For free delivery In 29 minytes or less ca 11... 237-7314 451 Railroad Ave. {behind the bus station) j$4OG mi. LION LENDER .99 F LION LENDER “The immediate problem is, ‘Where’s funding going to come from for people not signed up or who are diagnosed later?’ ” Jones said. “The Governor’s Office of the Budget is searching for a funding source,” Jones said. “We re looking for a federal program to draw down from. If (federal funds) are not available, the governor’s office will find an alternate funding source.” The goal, Jones said, is to find alternate funding by Sept. 30, the deadline for funding representatives. Pa. Budget Office spokesman Rod Snyder said alter nate funding could come from discretionary funds for agencies or would go through the state legislature. However, Snyder said possibilities are still being con sidered. “We don’t want to commit state funds if federal funds are available,” Snyder said. Hostetter said states involved with the program are reaching the point where the money is either committed or spent. Ohio and the District of Columbia have already committed state funds to pick up where the federal program picks up, he said. “Many of the states have been thinking about it for some time,” Hostetter said. “The question is, What caused them not to develop programs?’ It was certainly clear that the program would end after one year. “Certainly, to have put the program in as an ongoing (federal) obligation would be an entitlement,” Hostetter said. “There is not an eagerness to develop new entitle- ments.” The program has benefited 6,000 AIDS patients nation wide, Hostetter said. In 1988, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reported 70,000 AIDS cases and 40,000 deaths from the disease. DRINK jse of any Whole” or “Super” sub or any “Whole” Cheesesteak less than men Women make about 70 cents on the male dollar, Leventhal said! “The good news is that Pennsylva nia is trying to do something about (this situation),” McKenna said. The Economic Development Part nership, through its committee of Economic Equality for Women, is working to identify steps that state government can take to address the issue of economic equality for wom en, he said. “Instances of discrimination are still unfortunately common,” Good stein said. The climate of the place of employ ment on a whole is a key factor in the uneven salaries, Leventhal said. Is sues such as discrimination and ha rassment are still evident in the workplace. Data for the study was taken from a census supplied by the Pennsylvania State Davis Center, McKenna said. The University’s Capitol campus serves as the state’s data center by order of the governor, he added. 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