Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
Those who disagree often cite mostly positive political changes in the former Soviet Union as a principal reason why the U.S. is today less in need of nuclear deterrence than in the past.
Even though women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs.
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But the 50 wealthiest and most selective colleges and universities in the U.S. enroll less than 4% of students.
Schwab's business outside the U.S. accounts for less than 3% of total customer assets.
Even after a bump in recent weeks, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond sports an interest rate of less than 2%.
The researchers calculated the cost of liability to be 1.66% of GDP in the U.S., compared with an average of .63% for Eurozone countries and less than .5% in Denmark, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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While Freddie currently owns 23% of all the housing mortgages in the U.S. market, less than 4% of its portfolio consists of seriously delinquent loans.
The average American investor holds between 75% and 90% of his stock investments domestically, even though the U.S. represents less than 50% of the global stock market capitalization.
JPMorgan derives most of its revenues from its retail banking operations in the U.S. Only 20% of its revenues come from outside of the U.S., substantially less than competitor Citigroup which generates more than 50% of its revenue abroad.
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Add it all up and the U.S. collects far less in taxes than most of our trading partners.
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In 2000, according to the U.S. census, less than a quarter of black Americans -- 22.5% -- lived in poverty.
He says that for the U.S., GDP growth of less than 3% used to be considered a recession.
Telecommunications and energy, respectively, are about 13.2% and 17.6% of the index, and less than 3% and 6% of the economy.
Unlike its more profitable private sector rival HDFC Bank, ICICI is ready to sacrifice short-term net for gaining market share, as it did in undercutting HDFC's long-standing lead in mortgage loans. (Overall, ICICI's net interest margin of 2.25% is less than half that of HDFC Bank's 4.72%.) Similarly, ICICI has overtaken Citibank as the country's largest issuer of credit cards, with 8.5 million cards issued to date.
China, for instance, accounts for just 12.5% of its production, less than that of rivals.
That works out to an average tax rate of 39.4%, less than half of what Depardieu claims.
The data shows the average tax that a medium-size American company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes, equates to 46.7% of total profits in the U.S. compared with 42.7% in the OECD despite having less number of taxes to pay than its advanced economy rivals (11 for U.S. vs 13 different taxes for OECD).
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The spreads, or gap of U.K. government debt over similar German debt has widened less than the spread of French debt over German paper.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recently commented that all of China's U.S. treasury bond holdings represent less than one day's volume of trading on global bond markets.
Reaction has been mixed in Mexico to the show of force displayed by Latinos in the U.S. Much of he media has given the demonstrations far less space than American media.
With a present conventional gasoline demand of 2.2 million barrels per day against ethanol production of less than 0.8 million barrels per day, it is puzzling that an ethanol pipeline is being proposed as a means for growing the ethanol market.
It was met by 64.6% of Southeastern trains - less than two out of three.
The U.S. Census Bureau, however, says the number of people will peak at less than 1.4 billion in 2026, and that conclusion is in line with the most recent thinking on the subject.
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Alas, the same cannot be said for average earnings, which have actually now fallen even further behind inflation in October with average annual growth of just 1.3% - less than half the rate of inflation.
Data centers and offices accounted for 1.2 million metric tons through the purchase of electricity, representing less than 0.01% of global electricity consumption, according to the company.
Even if Gazprom exercises all its options, the Italian oil giant will have purchased the equivalent of 1.5 billion barrels of oil for less than 50 cents a barrel.
The meal would have to contain half a cup of fruit and three-fourths a cup of vegetables, and offer less than 640 milligrams of sodium and less than 0.5 milligrams of trans fat.
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Analysts are expecting Amazon.com to come in with earnings of 29 cents per share, 23.7% less than a year ago when it reported earnings of 38 cents per share.
And yet, the risks to U.S. and allied security of doing otherwise are no less great than those that prompted the prudent, earlier action.
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