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Percent of the Population that Has Hi-Speed Internet Access at Home by Race/Ethnicity

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http://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/fp-legacy/lccrdigitaldivide.pdf

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Percent of the Population that Has Hi-Speed Internet Access at Home by Race/Ethnicity

Access to high-speed connections such as DSL and cable modems, represent a new dimension of digital divide. With the rapidity of technological change, very many people who thought yesterday have sufficient technological skills and now find themselves sidelined and  destabilized.

About a quarter of whites and a third of Asians have of broadband access at home, unlike the Mexicans who have the lowest rate.

Only one of out ten Mexican-Americans has a hi-speed connection at home.

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unique online audience by age and gender, August 2011

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44- http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr11/international/icmr5.22

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unique online audience by age and gender, August 2011

In most countries the gender differences are usually smaller than other gaps. In the case of the US, the difference in the rate of users among men and women is almost irrelevant, only around 2%

 

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Unemployment rate for foreign-born workers

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http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100324.htm

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Unemployment rate for foreign-born workers

This could be partially caused by economic recession. The largest gap: Hispanic or Latino population: 4.5% difference. The smallest gap: White population: 2.7% difference. Lower skilled jobs would be the first to go. A large population of less qualified immigrants are from Hispanic countries. And the population of higher skilled immigrants are mostly from European and Asian countries.

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Brain Drain Index

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http://www.saworldview.com/article/brain-drain

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Brain Drain Index

This chart represents the percentage of graduates planning on staying in US as opposed to returning to their country of origin.The countries’ percentage of doctoral grads that plan to stay in US are mostly from China, India, Iran, Nepal. The highest percentage of graduates from foreign countries planning to stay are mostly from east and south Asia of 79.2%. Consequences are that the countries of origin lack people with high skills; e.g. many doctors and nurses in Jamaica left to gain a higher wage/salary which is beneficial to the host country but not so much for the country of origin.

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Reservoir Construction is slowing is U.S

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www.wikipedia.com

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Reservoir Construction is slowing is U.S

You need lots of water and a lot of land where you can build a dam and reservoir, which all takes a LOT of money, time, and construction. The trend for the future will probably be to build small-scale hydro plants that can generate electricity for a single community.

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