WOMEN AND BLACKS NARROW MONEY-MAKING GAP A HIGHLY EDUCATED WHITE MAN STILL...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  March 21, 2003 ;     485 words ......much has not changed: A highly educated white man still makes...white women made about 40 percent less, while black and Hispanic men earned 30 percent less, according to Census...Asians earned about 8 percent less than whites. There...

News and Views: African-Born U.S. Residents Are the Most Highly Educated...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  September 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ......States are more highly educated than are U.S. whites...attainment. Nearly 90 percent of African-born...fact at least 40 percent of all immigrants...rather affluent and highly educated families in their...are now the most highly educated members of British...census, more ...

Only 10 Percent of Techies Attend Church.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data...

Free Inquiry;  June 22, 2001 ;     194 words ......Associated Press report, only about 10 percent of Silicon Valley residents attend church regularly. That's not just 10 percent of the highly educated, long-laboring computer whizzes who...s high-tech companies--that's 10 percent of the techies, their spouses, and...Sunday-morning nose ...

October Contracts Decrease 9 Percent

Targeted News Service;  November 24, 2008 ;     346 words ......reported construction starts decreased 9 percent in October. In addition, during the first...of 2008, total construction was down 15 percent compared with a year ago. "As shown by...Nonresidential building construction decreased 9 percent in October. In the commercial category...

VOA NEWS: HIGHLY-EDUCATED IMMIGRANTS HEADING TO US AND EUROPE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 4, 2006 ;     442 words ......experts estimate that about 25 percent of them have attended college...most common professions of highly educated immigrants. Lindsay Lowell...prime example. "About 25 percent of our physicians are foreign...spectrum, some of Mexico's most highly educated people have moved to ...

NYC Economy Needs Highly Educated Workforce to Grow

New York Beacon, The;  December 5, 2001 ;     635 words ......12-05-2001 NYC Economy Needs Highly Educated Workforce To Grow To compete...they need a workforce more highly educated than ever before and that...summer by the Comptroller, 57 percent said they require education...next five years. Fifty-six percent of the firms indicated ...

News and Views: African Immigrants in the United States Are the Nation's...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  January 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Are the Nation's Most Highly Educated Group Five years ago...Kingdom were the most highly educated group in British society...British Census, 26.5 percent of black Britons who...graduate degree. Only 3.8 percent of all adult black Americans...household income that was 37 ...

INDIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH FALLS FURTHER TO 7.6 PERCENT

The Hindustan Times;  November 28, 2008 ;     271 words ......economic growth has fallen further to 7.6 percent for the second quarter of this fiscal...Friday. The country's growth was 7.9 percent during the first quarter of the fiscal (April-June) and 9.2 percent during the second quarter of 2007-08...

Report Finds Internet Usage Grows to 53.1 Percent in Rhode Island.

Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  February 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......at 38.8 percent in 2000, and increased to 53.1 percent last year. That jump makes Rhode Island the fourth-faste...penetration in the household was New Hampshire (61.6 percent), followed by Connecticut (55 percent), Massachusetts (54.7 percent), Vermont (53.4 percent) and Maine (53.3 ...

County Bucks National Job-Cutting Trend; Technology, Service Industries...

The Washington Post;  May 10, 2001 ;     626 words ......The number of workers in the District grew 0.6 percent, to 404,372, while payroll grew 5.4 percent, to $18.3 million. Howard's unemployment rate has remained low, dropping to 1.9 percent in March, down from 2 percent in February. Maryland's overall jobless rate fell from 4.1 percent in ...

Valley grows smarter ? by matter of degrees: Newcomers are highly...

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  September 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ......that the Lehigh Valley trailed the nation by 2 percentage points in bachelor's degrees. In 2000, the Valley trailed by 2.1 percentage points. But five years later, that deficit had been cut in half to just 0.9 percentage points: 27.2 percent for the United States and 26.3 percent for the ...

News and Views; African-American Internet Users Are a Highly Educated...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  April 30, 2001 ;     696 words ......African-American Internet users are female. Yet only 35 percent of Internet users generally are women. 2. Some 83 percent of African Americans who use the Internet have at least some college education. Only 61 percent of all Internet users of all races have some college...geared toward women. Because ...

INDIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH FALLS FURTHER TO 7.6 PERCENT (ROUNDUP)

The Hindustan Times;  November 28, 2008 ;     529 words ......India's economic growth declined to 7.6 percent for the second quarter of this fiscal...manufacturing. The country's growth was 7.9 percent during the first quarter of the fiscal (April-June) and 9.2 percent during the second quarter of 2007-08...

MORE CENTRAL NEW YORKERS EARN DEGREES; LATEST DATA INDICATE ALMOST 84...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  May 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......numbers from the 2000 U.S. Census show that nearly 84 percent of local adults age 25 or over have completed high...degrees. That's a healthy increase over 1990, when 79 percent had high school diplomas and 21 percent had their bachelor's. The new numbers, combined with...track of educational outcomes. ...

Highly Educated Foreign Professionals: Key Contributors to America's...

Asian Pages;  April 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ......which allows U.S. employers to hire highly educated foreign professionals on a temporary...able to hire, on a temporary basis, highly educated foreign professionals for "specialty...During the last decade's economic boom, highly educated foreign nationals filled vacancies...