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Let me start with a statistic that some of you might already know: While women make 47% of the U.S. workforce, only 5% of startups are owned by women.
Despite legislation like the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009, and the fact that women currently make up half of the U.S. workforce, the Census Bureau reports that women still earn only 77 cents to each dollar a man earns.
My second reaction is that no matter who heads the next administration and more importantly the make up of the U.S. Senate, we are looking at higher taxes at the Federal level and for many states as well.
Nearly every company big enough to make it to the Global 500 operates across many borders, including most of the entries from the U.S. American names now make up 41% of the list, followed by Japanese with 18%.
He evidently also accepts that budgetary pressures are going to make U.S. deployments of mobile missiles problematic.
Twitter says it is just beginning to court small business, which make up the bulk of U.S. companies, and are an important revenue source for many tech giants, including Google.
But that is not the same as its share of the world market since many countries, including the U.S., make some of their own clothing and textiles.
African Americans, Latinos and women today comprise only about 20 percent of the STEM workforce, yet are projected to make up 70 percent of the total U.S. workforce by 2017.
Obama was optimistic about prospects for a deal on immigration reform, Kenny said, adding that it's an issue of importance to the Irish people even though they make up a relatively small portion of U.S. immigrants.
Latinos make up 16% of the U.S. population, but approximately 20% of new infections.
They make up the upper echelons of U.S. health care, and include Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Cedars-Sinai, and HMO giant Kaiser Permanente.
Today 40.9 million Hispanics make up 14% of the U.S. population, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.
The 152 million Americans who visited Facebook at least once in March make up nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who are on the Internet.
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And, second of all, what do you make of skepticism that the U.S. would act if Iran crossed a line because nobody knows what the line is?
In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.
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It is also investing in diesel use for passenger cars and light trucks, which the company expects will make up 25% of the U.S. market in eight to ten years.
Specialized master's programs, one-year degrees in subjects including finance and accounting, have found particular popularity among younger Chinese students seeking a competitive edge back home, though such programs make up a small share of U.S. graduate schools.
Many would not be developed in the first place if the drug companies did not have the incentive to make gobs of money in the U.S. In France and Britain, Moore shows doctors using imaging machines and emphasizes how everything's free.
Really, what is one to make of a nation that employs more people in the U.S. Department of Agriculture than there are farmers?
Facebook is ramping up for one of the largest IPOs in the U.S., which could make Mr. Zuckerberg one of corporate America's shiniest targets.
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By mid-century, Hispanic people will make up nearly a quarter of the U.S. population, the bureau estimates.
The disputed brands make up an estimated 6 percent of U.S. domestic wine sales, about a billion dollars.
This campaign is harder to make sense of, like the Wii U itself.
Women make up a small portion of the U.S. prison population--just 7%.
The Obama administration announced last year that it would make a priority of removing from the U.S. illegal immigrants who committed serious crimes.
The question will be whether the Wii U can make itself necessary to enough of those audiences that it can fend off whatever Microsoft and Sony have up their sleeves.
Instead, he and John McCain devoted more than 98% of their television ad spending and campaign events to just 15 states which together make up about a third of the U.S. population.
While Hispanics make up about one-third of U.S. Catholics, they account for nearly half of those under the age of 40, according to the Pew Research Center a telling indicator of how much the church's future is tied to Latinos.
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