In states that do not, it offers a temporary Federal work sharing program to bridge the gap until the state can create a permanent program.
In its first four months Digicel bagged 600, 000 customers and is narrowing the gap now with the state in market share.
They call this, roughly translated, the gap between church and state.
Avon, Gap, Nike and State Street are among the twelve that made the list for a fifth consecutive year--but only three, Intel (No. 13), Starbucks (No. 39) and Cisco (No. 37), have made it all 12 years.
The private sector has not yet come close to filling the gap left by the retreating state.
The Government Accountability Office reported last week that the average state "fiscal gap" is 14.2% over the next 50 years, largely because of health-care costs.
In a crisis, there is inevitably a gap between the desired and current state of affairs.
FORBES: Leadership Lessons from Bloomberg, Christie, Katrina and Irene
The gap refers to the difference between state pension provision and the level of pension regarded as necessary to live on by the OECD.
Labour argues the government's scheme subsidises employers without creating new posts - while they would pay for the full wages and ensure that if not enough businesses came forward, the gap would be filled by the state and voluntary sectors.
However this later data showed that, even though independent school pupils were still more likely to be offered a place than similarly-qualified state school pupils, the gap was narrowing.
Aid is filling a gap that should be filled by the Haitian state.
They must reject a slash-and-burn approach that will make the gap between rich and poor in the golden state ever more extreme.
There is still a staggering gap almost a third of the state's students are black but the improvement in Alabama was the largest in the country over that period.
But by 2012, city children in third and fourth-grades had narrowed the test-score gap on math with their peers throughout the state but fell a few points short of pulling even.
Clinton still has a lead in the state, though polls do show the gap narrowing some.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
Shortly after he took office in 2010, Mr. Christie froze hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding to help close a midyear budget gap, then made sweeping cuts of up to 5% of districts' budgets in his 2010-11 budget, as federal stimulus funding ran out.
Meanwhile, schools, towns and services to the poor and elderly are seeing their share of state dollars slashed as politicians try to close the budget gap.
ECONOMIST: Can the Permanent Fund be used to wipe out the deficit?
One possible reason for this gap is that a large portion of the economy is still under state or foreign multinational control, which crowds out opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
In 2009, Mr. Bloomberg said the city would go further and close the gap between its public-school students and the rest of the state on math scores.
The event aims to promote the exchange of ideas in support of policy for culture and to strengthen state cultural policy strategies with a view to bridging the gap between the new challenges and institutional responses.
What we do not see from either ministry are proposals for substantially down-sizing or restructuring the welfare state, the financing of which is the reason for the unsustainable financial gap.
Vandana Krishna, the state's secretary of Women and Child Development, says the funding gap could be solved by giving village panchayats, or local governments, a special fund to make loans to anganwadis.
In New Hampshire, for example, where Grizzly candidate Kelly Ayotte won the Republican primary, she did so with a reverse gender gap: winning roughly half of male voters and only one-third of the state's Republican women.
Right now, Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are trailing in the Buckeye State by an average of 6% in recent polls, but that gap can easily be closed over the next five weeks if they play their cards right.
FORBES: Military Interests May Sway Vote In Ohio, A Key State For Republicans
So, in order to bridge this gap, these law firms have turned to relatives of prominent national politicians, former state elected officials and pension trustees and others with ready-made relationships that can assist firms that are impatient or incapable of establishing relationships on their own.
In return, he asked the Republicans to agree to a tax increase for the wealthier citizens of the state to make up the remainder of the funding required to close most of the gap in the budget.
FORBES: The Minnesota Shutdown - A Glimpse Into The Nation's Future And The GOP's True Intentions
That does not bode well for a country which will face enormous social and economic stresses in the coming years as its state-owned industries crumble, its markets open wider to foreign competition, the gap between rich and poor grows, corruption spreads and a fast-growing middle class begins to demand greater political involvement.
The job-training programs announced by the Obama administration in his State of the Union address are sensible, but they won't soon bridge the gap for workers with skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
WSJ: Zuckerman: The Great Recession Has Been Followed by the Grand Illusion
应用推荐