[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14824-14827]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7944]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Job Training Partnership Act; Lower Living Standard Income Level
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of determination of lower living standard income level.
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SUMMARY: The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) provides that the term
``economically disadvantaged'' may be defined as 70 percent of the
``lower living standard income level'' (LLSIL). To provide the most
accurate data possible, the Department of Labor is issuing revised
figures for the LLSIL.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice is effective on April 3, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: Ms. Diane Mayronne, Office of
Employment and Training Programs, Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor, Room N-4463, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Diane Mayronne, Telephone: 202-
219-5305 (this is not a toll free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: It is a purpose of the Job Training
Partnership Act (JTPA) ``to afford job training to those economically
disadvantaged individuals . . . who are in special need of such
training to obtain productive employment.'' JTPA Section 2; see 20 CFR
626.1 and 626.3(b). JTPA Section 4(8) defines, for the purposes of JTPA
eligibility, the term ``economically disadvantaged'' in part by
reference to the ``lower living standard income level'' (LLSIL). See 20
CFR 626.5.
The LLSIL figures published in this notice shall be used to
determine whether an individual is economically disadvantaged for
applicable JTPA purposes. JTPA Section 4(16) defines the LLSIL as
follows:
The term ``lower living standard income level'' means that
income level (adjusted for regional, metropolitan, urban, and rural
differences and family size) determined annually by the Secretary
[of Labor] based on the most recent ``lower living family budget''
issued by the Secretary.
The most recent lower living family budget was issued by the
Secretary in the fall of 1981. Using those data, the 1981 LLSIL was
determined for programs under the now-repealed Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act. The four-person urban family budget estimates
previously published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provided
the basis for the Secretary to determine the LLSIL for training and
employment program operators. BLS terminated the four-person family
budget series in 1982, after publication of the Fall 1981 estimates.
Under JTPA, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
published the 1995 updates to the LLSIL in the Federal Register of
April 25, 1995. 60 FR 20283. ETA has again updated the LLSIL to reflect
cost of living increases for 1995 by applying the percentage change in
the December 1995 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CIP-U),
compared with the December 1994 CPI-U, to each of the April 25, 1995,
LLSIL figures. Those updated figures for a family of four are listed in
Table 1 below by region for both metropolitan and nonmetropolital
areas. Since eligibility is determined by family income at 70 percent
of the LLSIL, pursuant to Section 4(8) of JTPA, those figures are
listed below as well.
Jurisdictions included in the various regions, based generally on
Census Divisions of the U.S. Department of Commerce, are as follows:
Northeast
Connecticut New York
Maine Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Rhode Island
New Hampshire Vermont
New Jersey Virginia Islands
Midwest
Illinois Missouri
Indiana Nebraska
Iowa North Dakota
Kansas Ohio
Michigan South Dakota
Minnesota Wisonsin
South
Alabama Kentucky
American Samoa Lousiana
Arkansas Marshall Islands
Delaware Maryland
District of Columbia Mississippi
Florida Micronesia
Georgia North Carolina
Northern Marianas Tennessee
Oklahoma Texas
Palau Virginia
Puerto Rico West Virginia
South Carolina
West
Arizona New Mexico
California Oregon
Colorado Utah
Idaho Washington
Montana Wyoming
Nevada
Additionally, separate figures have been provided for Alaska,
Hawaii,and Guam as indicated in Table 2 below.
For Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam, the 1996 figures were updated by
creating a ``State Index'' based on the ratio of the urban change in
the State (using Anchorage for Alaska and Honolulu for Hawaii and Guam)
compared to the
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West regional metropolitan change, and then applying that index to the
West regional nonmetropolitan change.
Data on 25 selected Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) are also
available. These are based on monthly, bimonthly or semiannual CPI-U
changes for a 12-month period ending in December 1995. The updated
LLSIL figures for these MSAs, and 70 percent of the LLSIL, rounded to
the next highest ten, are set forth in Table 3 below.
Table 4 below is a listing of each of the various figures at 70
percent of the updated 1996 LLSIL for family sizes of one to six
persons. For families larger than six persons, an amount equal to the
difference between the six-person and the five-person family income
levels should be added to the six-person family income level for each
additional person in the family. Where the poverty level for a
particular family size is greater than the corresponding LLSIL figures,
the figure is indicated in parentheses.
Section 4(8) of JTPA defines ``economically disadvantaged'' as,
among other things, an individual whose family income was not in excess
of the higher of the poverty level or 70 percent of the LLSIL. The
Department of Health and Human Services published the annual update of
the poverty-level guidelines at 61 FR 8286 (March 4, 1996).
Use of These Data
Based on these data, Governors should provide the appropriate
figures to service delivery areas (SDAs), State Employment Security
Agencies, and employers in their States to use in determining
eligibility for JTPA. The Governor should designate the appropriate
LLSILs for use within the State from Tables 1 through 3. Table 4 may be
used with any of the levels designated.
Information may be provided by disseminating information on MSAs
and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas within the State, or it may
involve further calculations. For example, the State of New Jersey May
have four or more figures: Metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, for portions
of the State in the New York City MSA, and for those in the
Philadelphia MSA. If an SDA includes areas that would be covered by
more than one figure, the Governor may determine which is to be used.
Pursuant to the JTPA regulations at 20 CFR 627.200, guidelines,
interpretations, and definitions adopted by the Governor shall be
accepted by the Secretary for the extent that they are consistent with
the JTPA and the JTPA regulations.
Disclaimer on Statistical Uses
It should be noted that the publication of these figures is only
for the purpose of determining eligibility for applicable JTPA
programs. BLS has not revised the lower living family budget since
1981, and has no plans to do so. The four-person urban family budget
estimates series has been terminated. The CPI-U adjustments used to
update the LLSIL for this publication are not precisely comparable,
most notably because certain tax items were included in the 1981 LLSIL,
but are not in the CPI-U.
Thus, these figures should not be used for any statistical
purposes, and are valid only for eligibility determination purposes
under the JTPA program.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of March, 1996.
Josephine Nieves,
Associate Assistant Secretary.
Appendix
Table 1.--Lower Living Standard Income Level by Region \1\
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1996
Region adjusted 70 percent
LLSIL LLSIL
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Northeast:
Metro....................................... 26,840 18,790
Non-Metro................................... 26,920 18,840
Midwest:
Metro....................................... 24,840 17,390
Non-Metro................................... 23,640 16,550
South:
Metro....................................... 23,700 16,590
Non-Metro................................... 22,340 15,640
West:
Metro....................................... 26,290 18,400
Non-Metro................................... 26,110 18,270
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\1\ For ease of calculation, these figures have been rounded to the
next highest ten dollars.
Table 2.--Lower Living Standard Income Level--Alaska, Hawaii and Guam
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1996
Region adjusted 70 percent
LLSIL LLSIL
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Alaska:
Metro....................................... 33,980 23,790
Non-Metro................................... 33,070 23,150
Hawaii-Guam:
Metro....................................... 36,940 25,860
Non-Metro................................... 35,950 25,160
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\1\ Rounded to the next highest ten dollars.
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Table 3.--Lower Living Standard Income Level--25 MSAs \1\
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1996
Region MSA adjusted 70 percent
LLSIL LLSIL
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Anchorage, AK................................. 33,980 23,790
Atlanta, GA................................... 23,620 16,530
Baltimore, MD................................. 25,060 17,542
Boston-Lawrence-Salem, MA/NH.................. 28,120 19,680
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY..................... 24,360 17,050
Chicago-Gary-Lake County, IL/IN/WI............ 25,990 18,200
Cinicinnati-Hamilton, OH/KY/IN................ 25,140 17,600
Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH.................... 25,600 17,920
Dallas-Ft Worth, TX........................... 22,570 15,800
Denver-Boulder, CO............................ 25,460 17,820
Detroit-Ann Arbor, MI......................... 24,010 16,800
Honolulu, HI.................................. 36,940 25,860
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX................ 22,280 15,600
Kansas City, MO/KS............................ 23,870 16,700
Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, CA............. 27,150 19,010
Milwaukee, WI................................. 25,290 17,700
Minneapolis-St Paul, MN/WI.................... 24,250 16,980
New York-Northern N.J.-Long Island, NY/NJ/CT.. 28,010 19,610
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton, PA/NJ/DE/MD.. 26,310 18,420
Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, PA.................. 25,140 17,600
St Louis-East St Louis, MO/IL................. 24,050 16,800
San Diego, CA................................. 27,390 19,170
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA............ 27,050 18,940
Seattle-Tacoma, WA............................ 28,130 19,690
Washington, DC/MD/VA.......................... 28,540 19,980
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\1\ Rounded to the next highest ten dollars.
Table 4.--Seventy Percent of Updated 1996 LLSIL, by Family Size\1\
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Family of
one Two Three Four Five Six
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(5,620).... (9,200) (12,640) 15,600 18,410 21,530
(5,630).... (9,230) (12,670) 15,640 18,460 21,580
(5,690).... (9,320) (12,800) 15,800 18,640 21,800
(5,950).... (9,750) 13,390 16,530 19,510 22,810
(5,960).... (9,770) 13,410 16,550 19,530 22,840
(5,970).... (9,790) 13,440 16,590 19,580 22,890
(6,010).... (9,850) 13,530 16,700 19,710 23,050
(6,050).... (9,910) 13,610 16,800 19,820 23,180
(6,110).... (10,020) 13,750 16,980 20,040 23,430
(6,140).... (10,060) 13,810 17,050 20,120 23,530
(6,260).... (10,260) 14,090 17,390 20,520 24,000
(6,320).... (10,350) 14,210 17,540 20,700 24,210
(6,340).... 10,380 14,260 17,600 20,770 24,290
(6,370).... 10,440 14,340 17,700 20,890 24,430
(6,420).... 10,510 14,430 17,820 21,030 24,590
(6,450).... 10,570 14,520 17,920 21,150 24,730
(6,550).... 10,740 14,740 18,200 21,480 25,120
(6,580).... 10,780 14,800 18,270 21,560 25,210
(6,620).... 10,860 14,900 18,400 21,710 25,390
(6,630).... 10,870 14,920 18,420 21,740 25,420
6,760...... 11,090 15,220 18,790 22,170 25,930
6,780...... 11,120 15,260 18,840 22,230 26,000
6,820...... 11,180 15,340 18,940 22,350 26,140
6,840...... 11,220 15,400 19,010 22,430 26,230
6,900...... 11,310 15,530 19,170 22,620 26,460
7,060...... 11,570 15,880 19,610 23,140 27,060
7,090...... 11,610 15,940 19,680 23,220 27,160
7,090...... 11,620 15,590 19,690 23,230 27,170
7,190...... 11,790 16,180 19,980 23,580 27,570
8,330...... 13,660 18,750 23,150 27,320 31,950
8,560...... 14,040 19,270 23,790 28,070 32,830
9,060...... 14,840 20,380 25,160 29,690 34,720
9,310...... 15,260 20,950 25,860 30,520 35,690
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\1\ Figures provided in Tables 1-3 of this notice are for a family of
four persons. To use Table 4, the appropriate figure should be found
in the Family of Four column. Then one may read across the row for
family sizes other than four in the appropriate column.
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