The Keystone Research Center surveys the State of Working Pennsylvania, 2004: In July 2004 Pennsylvania had 81,300, or 1.4%, fewer jobs than when the recession began in March of 2001. Pennsylvania's manufacturing job loss since January 2001 is 87 percent of the state's manufacturing job loss over the last decade. As of July 2004 the state is 181,000 short of the number of jobs needed to keep pace with growth of Pennsylvania's working-age population. The state's job creation performance after the 2001 recession is the fourth worst since World War II. Wages are down for every group except white women and African American men. The average wage of production workers was lower in July 2004 than in any of the three previous years. At $15.08 it is about a dollar an hour lower than the national average of $16.05. Between March 2001 and July 2004 employment in the state's high-wage industries has fallen by 5.6% while employment in low-wage industries has grown by 2.9% The number of Pennsylvanians without health insurance has grown. In 2003, the last year for which data are available, 1.38 million Pennsylvanians did not have health insurance, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Poverty in Pennsylvania increased substantially in the last year, especially for children. The share of children in poverty increased from 11.6 to 15.5 pecent from 2000 to 2003, a jump of one third. From 2002 to 2003 the share of children in poverty increased from 13.8 to 15.5 percent. The share of adults in poverty increased from 8.6 to 10.5 percent between 2000 and 2003.